Heartburn

… into her first solo screenplay, Heartburn (1986). The comedy-drama starred Streep in the Ephron role and Jack Nicholson as her philandering husband.

…to the big screen with Heartburn (1986), an adaptation of Ephron’s semiautobiographical novel about a pregnant woman who learns that her husband is cheating on her. Streep and Nicholson stood in for Ephron and journalist Carl Bernstein, Ephron’s then husband. Biloxi Blues (1988) was Nichols’s first filming of a play…

…theme to the 1986 movie Heartburn), and she won a Grammy (for best song written specifically for a motion picture or television; 1990), a Golden Globe Award (1989), and an Academy Award for “Let the River Run,” which she also sang, in Working Girl (1988). She also scored music for…

…occasionally acted in films, including Heartburn (1986), Keeping the Faith (2000), and Les Bien-Aimés (2011; Beloved). He also cowrote (with Jan Novák) the memoir Turnaround (1994).

…Hours (1985) and Mike Nichols’s Heartburn (1986). She then memorably played Delia, one of the unwelcome living owners of a haunted house, in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988). She made a few more TV and movie appearances before taking on the part for which she may be most widely known, that…