Lila Garrett
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Lila Garrett | |
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| Born | November 21, 1925[1] New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 1, 2020 (aged 94) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Television | The ABC Afternoon Playbreak, The Other Woman, All in the Family, The Second Hundred Years, Bewitched, My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller |
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| Children | Eliza Roberts |
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Lila Garrett (November 21, 1925 – February 1, 2020) was an American television screenwriter and radio host who wrote for the sitcoms The Second Hundred Years (she co-wrote episodes 10 and 13 with Bernie Kahn),[2] My Favorite Martian,[3] All in the Family,[4] and Bewitched.[5] She also co-wrote The Barefoot Executive, a 1971 Disney TV movie,[6] with Kahn and Stu Billett.
An anti-war activist, Garrett's political engagement includes starting Americans Against War with Iraq,[7] serving as a DNC delegate for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis,[8] presiding as president[9] over the Southern California chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, and being a founding member of Progressive Democrats of America.[1] She hosted KPFK's Connect the Dots on Pacifica Radio,[1] interviewing left-leaning luminaries and often closed her show with "The arms industry has neither allies nor enemies, only customers." She was a frequent contributor to the LA Progressive, an online magazine[10]
She lived in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital for a while.[11]
