Dalene Young
Writing
Biography
Dalene Young (June 29, 1939 — May 9, 2025) was an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor. She was best known for writing the coming-of-age comedy-drama Little Darlings (1980), featuring Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol, and the Mary Steenburgen-starring drama Cross Creek (1983).
Young received a Daytime Emmy nomination for co-writing the Showtime children’s special Locked in Silence (1999) and landed a Christopher Award and a Humanitas Prize nomination for her work on the NBC telefilm Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992).
As actor 7
On the crew 30
Little Darlings
1980
The Baby-Sitters Club
1995
Cross Creek
1983
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
1977
Evidence of Blood
1998
The Yarn Princess
1994
Cab to Canada
1998
The Last Dance
2000
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
Locked in Silence
1999
Little Darlings
1982
Marilyn: The Untold Story
1980
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
1992
Going Home
2000
The Plutonium Incident
1980
Deadman's Curve
1978
Silk Hope
1999
Panic in Echo Park
1977
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
1976
Is There Life Out There?
1994
The People Across the Lake
1988
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
1977
Living a Lie
1991
Why Me?
1984
Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story
1979
Journey of the Heart
1997
I Love You Perfect
1989
A Message from Holly
1992
Pale Horse Pale Rider
1981
Baby Luv
2000