Margaret Fitts grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from Stanford
University in 1945, where she studied speech, drama and journalism. She
wrote a regular column for the Stanford Daily in her senior year. Ms.
Fitts applied to the junior writers' program at MGM and was accepted,
signing a studio contract in 1947. Her scripts were primarily
adaptations, a noted exception being her original story and screenplay,
The King and Four Queens. After leaving MGM in 1954 she worked in
television for a time, then retired from the film business.
