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Dec 27, 2018 · Daniel Stiepleman was sitting at his Uncle Martin’s funeral in 2010, when he heard a eulogy that sparked a screenplay. The story had to do with a case that his uncle, a tax lawyer,...
Daniel Stiepleman on the set of ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Scott: In Hollywood there’s a saying, “Never let the facts get in the way of the story.” Were there any facts of substance that you had to change to fit the narrative of your script? Daniel: The short answer is no.
- Fact: Ginsburg Graduated from Columbia After Transferring from Harvard
- Fact: Martin Ginsburg Cooked Dinner For The Family
- Partially Fact: Ginsburg’s First Big Case Was A Tax Case
- Fact: Ginsburg Was Childhood Friends with ACLU Legal Director Melvin Wulf
- Fact: Moritz Led to Ginsburg’s Continued Work with The ACLU
After Martin Ginsburg graduated from Harvard Law School in 1958, Ruth still had one year left. But Martin was offered a job in New York City that he couldn’t pass up. Ruth decided that she needed to be in New York with him and their young daughter and couldn’t stay in Boston to complete her degree. But the Dean of Harvard Law School, played by Sam ...
The picture the movie paints of the Ginsburgs’ egalitarian marriage is true to the life they led. Martin, who died in 2010, loved to cook dinner for the family and supported his wife in all of her professional pursuits—an arrangement that was not particularly common for that time. Ginsburg has said that when she met Martin at Cornell, where they bo...
On the Basis of Sex suggests that the case the movie follows is Ginsburg’s first. And although Moritz v. Commissionerdefinitely was the first well-known case Ginsburg tried, it wasn’t her first. What is true, as Ginsburg told Totenberg, is the movie’s depiction of how she came to discover this case. “I don’t read tax cases,” Ruth tells Marty in the...
In the movie, Ruth’s childhood friendship with the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Melvin Wulf (played by Justin Theroux), is tantamount to her success in Moritz. This is true. The two attended a Jewish summer camp together, and when Ginsburg told her friend about the case she and Martin had found, he agreed that the AC...
After winning Moritz, Ginsburg co-founded the Women’s Right’s Project at the ACLU in 1972, where she continued the fight to promote gender equality. Without Ginsburg’s work eradicating the laws that discriminate on the basis of sex, the country may not look how it does today: a country which, in spite of its problems, does have very few such laws t...
Dec 17, 2018 · In 2010, Daniel Stiepleman attended the funeral of his uncle Martin Ginsburg, a tax attorney. In one of the eulogies, a family friend told the story of Charles E. Moritz v....
Jan 5, 2019 · A /film interview with Daniel Stiepleman, who is not only the screenwriter of the movie On the Basis of Sex, he’s also the nephew of the film’s central character Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader…
Dec 25, 2018 · Daniel Stiepleman is Ginsburg's nephew and On the Basis of Sex is his first produced screenplay. It focuses on Ginsbyrg's early life and marriage to Martin Ginsburg.
Dec 26, 2020 · Daniel Stiepleman is a screenwriter, including of “On the Basis of Sex,“ based on the life and early career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. How could such a big life fit into a box so small?
