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About Elliott Greenberg [aka Elliott Grennard]
- View the photograph of Elliott and his wife Eleanor at the "Sources" tab of this profile. (Click "Add Sources". At the next screen, click on the photograph. At the next screen, click on the thumbnail image of the photograph.)
- Elliott was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter. His big hits included "Time Will Tell," first recorded in May 1935 and sung by Stuart Allen; "Monday in Manhattan," first recorded in June 1935 and sung by Stuart Allen; and "To Be Or Not To Be In Love," which Elliott wrote with Allie Wrubel.
- The "Drama Desk" column, by Harold W. Cohen, in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Monday, May 3, 1937, page 18, noted that " 'Slightly Terrific,' by Elliott Grennard and Kermit Lyons, is the Jackie Coogan vehicle with which the Lakewood Theater at Showkegan, Me., will open its summer season May 29..."
- The "Chicago Movies Suburban" column of the Chicago Sunday Tribune, October 4, 1942, page 6, mentioned that "Richard Himber, the orchestra leader, is writing the score for a musical comedy tentatively entitled 'Where There's Willie'. He and Cy Enfield, a Hollywood director, intend to stage the show this fall. Elliott Grennard has written the book and also the lyrics for Himber's music. The locale is Hollywood, and the story is reported to be a satire on a popular orchestra leader, who may or may not be Himber himself." [It is possible that the orchestra leader that Elliott had in mind was his own brother, Carl Fenton.]
- In 1942 through 1944, Elliott was a music and film critic for "Billboard" magazine. As of 1944 he was the music editor of the magazine.
- In 1948, Elliott won an O. Henry Book Award in the "Best First Published Story" category (a $100 prize), for his short story "Sparrow's Last Jump". The story was published originally in the May 1947 issue of Harper's Magazine. Among the other O. Henry Book Award recipients in 1948 were Truman Capote (first prize winner, of $300, for "Shut a Final Door"), Wallace Stegner (second prize winner, of $200, for "Beyond the Glass Mountain"), Ray Bradbury (third prize winner, of $100, for "Powerhouse") and Elizabeth Janeway for "Child of God".
- While in Hollywood, trying his hand at screenwriting (after his success with "Sparrow's Last Jump"), Elliott belonged to a stellar clique of fellow authors. As explained by E.E. King at http://inkubate.com/history-of-the-writer-as-a-young-girl-2/:
- "One of my earliest memories is of sitting on the steps leading into my parents’ living room and listening to the authors in my dad’s writers group read aloud from their latest works.
- "My father, Dolph Sharp, was born in 1914 in Long Island N.Y. As a young man, he wrote reviews and satirical shorts for a Hempstead, Long Island paper, later moving to Tucson and then to California for health reasons. Daddy made his living writing fiction for magazines like Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post and Women’s Day.
- "One of his works, “The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman’s Life,” was published in The Best American Short Stories of 1948. Buoyed by this success and looking for literary companionship in his new city, he set out to start a writers group by searching through the compendium’s Table of Contents for other writers living in Los Angeles.
- "Not long after, Ray Bradbury, Sanora Babb, Wilma Shore, Joseph Petracca, Elliott Grennard and Ben Maddow convened at our home in the Hollywood Hills and shared their stories over pastrami on rye with pickles and sauerkraut."
- Elliott's political beliefs were of a Socialist/Marxist nature. While in Hollywood trying to write a screenplay, he was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, it was noted "Elliott Grennard: He played piano professionally in bands, member of ASCAP; articles on jazz in Music and Rhythm, PM, and New Masses; for three years was music editor and critic of Billboard..."
- On April 7, 1936, Elliott and K. Lyons copyrighted a play called "Slightly Terrific" (a comedy in three acts).
- Elliott married his first wife, Sylvia, in about 1927 to 1929.
- Elliott married Eleanor Marshall in about 1934. They were divorced between 1948 and 1951.
- Elliott married Alberta Morwood in 1952 in New York, New York County, New York.
- Elliott married Shirley [surname not known] at an unknown date and place.
- When Elliott returned to New York from Hollywood, he worked, during the 1950s, as a desk clerk at the Yale Club at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue in Manhattan.
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Elliott Greenberg [aka Elliott Grennard]'s Timeline
| 1907 |
December 20, 1907
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New York, New York, New York
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| 1968 |
July 23, 1968
Age 60
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Peekskill, Westchester, New York
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