Sadie L. Ornitz; Wife of Blacklisted Screenwriter

Sadie L. Ornitz, 99, widow of Samuel Ornitz, a screenwriter who was one of the Hollywood 10 imprisoned for his political views during the McCarthy era. In 1987 she was featured prominently in the public television documentary “Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist.” Mrs. Ornitz, a suffragette in her youth, also was president of the Hollywood Women’s Council, a peace activist group which began at the time of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. At the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills on Dec. 15.