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After apprenticing as an executive assistant at both Tri-Star Pictures and Paramount, Silver received her MFA at USC where her graduate thesis served as the basis for her screenwriting debut, the tidy psychological thriller about the "nanny-from-hell", "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992). The screenplay, a classic "you never know whom you can trust" scenario of the "Rosemary's Baby" school, astutely plays upon the subliminal fears of contemporary working mothers about the quality of care given their children by nannies....
Full Bio & Milestones

Filmography

Being Booey - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
Birdsong - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
California Fire and Life - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
In the Heart of the Sea - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
PLAY MISTY FOR ME (Remake) - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
Seconds - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
Selling Time - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
The KINGDOM (Manifest Film Co) - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
The Rifleman - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
The Thieves of Heaven - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
Traded - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
The Relic - ( Screenplay / 1997 / Released / Toho-Towa Company )
Eye for An Eye - ( Screenplay / 1996 / Released / )
Disclosure - ( Screenplay / 1994 / Released / )
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - ( Screenplay / 1992 / Released / )
Jack Falls Down - ( Lighting / 1989 / Released / )
TV Credits
Fallen Angels ( Released ): Writer
Full Biography (Back to top)

After apprenticing as an executive assistant at both Tri-Star Pictures and Paramount, Silver received her MFA at USC where her graduate thesis served as the basis for her screenwriting debut, the tidy psychological thriller about the "nanny-from-hell", "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992). The screenplay, a classic "you never know whom you can trust" scenario of the "Rosemary's Baby" school, astutely plays upon the subliminal fears of contemporary working mothers about the quality of care given their children by nannies.

Silver is the granddaughter of Columbia screenwriter Sidney Buchman (1902-75), renowned for his classic Frank Capra films and is married to Rick Jaffa, executive producer of "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle". She and her husband have subsequently worked on the thrillers "Eye for an Eye" (1996) and "The Relic" (1997).


Profession(s):
screenwriter, executive assistant
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
grandfather:Sidney Buchman (born 1902, died August 23, 1975; wrote screenplays for "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" (1941), "The Group" (1966) and produced "The Mark" (1961); blacklisted when he refused to name name before HUAC committee and moved to France)
husband:Rick Jaffa (executive producer of Silver's debut film "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992))

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Education
Yale University New Haven, Connecticut history
School of Film, University of Southern California Los Angeles, California MFA screenwriting 1987
Milestones (Back to top)
1992 Graduate thesis for USC film school filmed as "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
Worked as an executive assistant at Tri-Star Pictures and Paramount Pictures before enrolling in USC film school

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