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Dalene Young

Dalene Young

Dalene Young (June 29, 1939 — May 9, 2025) was an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor. She was best known for writing the coming-of-age comedy-drama Little Darlings (1980), featuring Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol, and the Mary Steenburgen-starring drama Cross Creek (1983). Young received a Daytime Emmy nomination for co-writing the Showtime children’s special Locked in Silence (1999) and landed a Christopher Award and a Humanitas Prize nomination for her work on the NBC telefilm Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992).

On screen

  • Pig
  • Sonny Boy
  • Will There Really Be a Morning?
  • Teen Lust
  • Juke Box Racket

Behind the camera

  • Going Home
  • The Last Dance
  • Silk Hope
  • Locked in Silence
  • Evidence of Blood
  • Cab to Canada
  • Journey of the Heart
  • The Baby-Sitters Club
  • Is There Life Out There?
  • The Yarn Princess
  • A Message from Holly
  • Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
  • Living a Lie
  • I Love You Perfect
  • The People Across the Lake
  • Why Me?
  • Will There Really Be a Morning?
  • Cross Creek
  • Marilyn: The Untold Story
  • The Plutonium Incident
  • Little Darlings
  • Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story
  • Deadman's Curve
  • Panic in Echo Park
  • Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
  • Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
  • Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

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