Background
Johnson was born Monica Lenore Belson in 1946 in Colorado, but was raised in El Centro, California.
Johnson was born Monica Lenore Belson in 1946 in Colorado, but was raised in El Centro, California.
Together Again and The Muse. Her television credits included The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Laverne & Shirley and lieutenant"s Garry Shandling"s Show. She was a frequent collaborator with Albert Brooks.
Foreign the second script, having remarried, she was credited as Monica Mcgowan Johnson.
By the time of third script in 1974, she was credited simply as Monica Johnson, the professional name she would use for the rest of her career. Miller and Johnson broke up as a writing team in 1974.
Miller would go on to become one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live starting in 1975. Johnson later became a writer/producer on Laverne & Shirley, and worked on a couple of television movies before beginning her long-term screenwriting collaboration with Albert Brooks in 1979 with the film Real Life.
The two would co-write 5 more of Brooks" films over the following two decades.
Johnson, a resident of Palm Springs, California, died of esophageal cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on November 1, 2010, aged 64.