Virginia Kellogg (December 3, 1907 – April 8, 1981) was an American film writer whose stories were adapted into the screenplays for White Heat (1949) and Caged (1950).
[4] By 1930, she was working at Paramount as a scenarist, after starting out as a script girl and secretary for director Clarence Brown around 1926.
[5][6][7] She wrote a string of Pre-Code films for the studio at this time, including The Road to Reno and Mary Stevens, M.D.
With the assistance of authorities, she was incarcerated with a false conviction for embezzlement and served time in four American prisons.
[8] She was married several times: to fellow Times reporter, Walter Cochrane[9] in 1938 through the mid-1940s; to Thomas Milton Fine[10] from 1949–unknown; to director Frank Lloyd from about 1955 to 1960; and Albert Mortensen, a retired railroad executive.