Doris Wolfe Gilbert[1] (January 27, 1914 – December 15, 1993)[2] was an American screenwriter and TV writer known for her work on B movies of the 1940s and 1950s at Republic Pictures.
[3] Doris was the youngest of three daughters born to famed Russia-born composer L. Wolfe Gilbert and his wife, Catherine Oestreicher.
[4][1] The family moved from New York to Los Angeles when Doris was a girl, and she got into screenwriting at a young age thanks to her father's involvement writing songs for movies at Fox.
During the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote scripts for over a dozen television shows, including Science Fiction Theatre and Adventures of Superman.
In 1941–42, Doris Gilbert collaborated with Sally Benson on a radio version of the latter's Junior Miss short stories.