Elizabeth Beecher was an American screenwriter best known for her work on Western-themed movies and television shows in the 1940s and 1950s.
She graduated from Syracuse University in 1920 with majors in English and history.
[1] Beecher worked as a news reporter and writer for the Syracuse Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York American.
[1] Outside of film, Beecher wrote comic and children's books, including adaptions of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Tonka[2] for the Walt Disney Company.
She was survived by her son, Guy Snowden Miller; her sister, Dorothy Shidler; her grandson, Gene; and her granddaughter, Kerry.