Headline from yesterday evening's New York Times  obituaries—

Frederica Sagor Maas, Silent-Era Scriptwriter, Dies at 111.

For Maas… Past Tense (Jan. 7, 2012) and its link to Dogma.

Related material—

Last night's SNL, this morning's Entertainment Break,
and — in the context of Dogma — Catholics Believe.

From an LA Times  story about Maas on January 7—

"Many of the screenplays she and her husband wrote between 1938 and 1950 were never produced. Hopeless, humiliated and having little money, the couple drove to a hilltop overlooking Hollywood with the intention of committing suicide in their Plymouth. Clutching each other, they started sobbing and realized that 'none of these things mattered. We had each other,' wrote Maas…."