Jane Allen

Jane Allen was the pseudonym of Silvia Schulman Lardner and Jane Shore. Schulman Lardner (1913-1993) worked for MGM and Selznick International, as producer David O. Selznick's personal secretary. Shore collaborated with Schulman Lardner on I Lost My Girlish Laughter and continued to write under the pseudonym of Jane Allen for A Girl's Best Friend Is Wall Street (adapted for the screen in 1941 as She Knew All the Answers). Her novel, Thanks God! I'll Take It from Here, written in collaboration...See more

Jane Allen was the pseudonym of Silvia Schulman Lardner and Jane Shore. Schulman Lardner (1913-1993) worked for MGM and Selznick International, as producer David O. Selznick's personal secretary. Shore collaborated with Schulman Lardner on I Lost My Girlish Laughter and continued to write under the pseudonym of Jane Allen for A Girl's Best Friend Is Wall Street (adapted for the screen in 1941 as She Knew All the Answers). Her novel, Thanks God! I'll Take It from Here, written in collaboration with May Livingstone, was adapted for the screen and retitled Without Reservations. See less