Bronte Woodard (October 8, 1940 – August 6, 1980) was an American writer whose credits include the adapted screenplay for the filmGrease and the screenplay for the 1980Village People filmCan't Stop the Music (co-written withGrease producerAllan Carr). He also wrote a novel,Meet Me at the Melba.^[1]

Raised inAtlanta, he died of hepatitis-related liver failure at the age of 39 on August 6, 1980, inLos Angeles,California.^[2][3]

In 1976,Universal Studios announced plans to make a film ofAnne Rivers Siddons' novelHeartbreak Hotel for which Woodard would write the screenplay.^[4] However, the novel was not actually filmed until several years after Woodard's death, reaching the screen under the titleHeart of Dixie in 1989 with a screenplay by Tom McCown instead of Woodard.^[5]

• Bronté Woodard atIMDb
• "Bronte Woodard".Variety.com. Reed Elsevier Inc.
• Maslin, Janet (2012)."Bronte Woodard". Movies & TV Dept.The New York Times.Baseline &All Movie Guide. Archived fromthe original on October 22, 2012. RetrievedApril 27, 2010.

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