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Bess Meredyth was born on 12 February 1890 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Wonder of Women (1929), Morgan's Raiders (1918) and A Woman of Affairs (1928). She was married to Michael Curtiz, Wilfred Lucas and Burton Leslie.
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- Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Fowler, Gene. Good Night Sweet Prince. 1943. Cutchogue: Buccaneer Books, 1976. Fowler, Gene, and Bess Meredyth. The Mighty Barnum, A Screenplay. New York: Garland, 1977. Harmetz, Aljean. Round Up the Usual Suspects. New York: Hyperion, 1992. Lucas, John Meredyth. Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood: Memoir of a Career in Film and Television.Jefferson: Mc...
A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Bess Meredyth as Screenwriter, Coscreenwriter, Source Author, Adaptation, and Continuity The Modern Prodigal/One Good Turn Deserves Another. Dir.: D. W. Griffith, sc.: Bess Meredyth, st.: Bess Meredyth, Dell Henderson (Biograph Co. US 1910) cas.: Clara T. Bracey, Kate Bruce, Dell Henderson, si, b&w, 1...
While The Modern Prodigal, a 1910 D. W. Griffith film is extant, Bess Meredyth is not credited on FIAF and AFI. Victoria Sturtevant claims the film is “based on the novel The Southerner by Bess Meredyth.” Paul Spehr also lists Bess Meredyth as the source author, and Braff lists her as screenwriter. Both Spher and Braff list Henderson as cast only, ...
March 2023: A Five Foot Ruler(1917), a two-reel presumably lost film with a story credited to Bess Meredyth in the trade press, has been added to the filmography.
Sturtevant, Victoria. "Bess Meredyth." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013.
Sep 15, 2021 · Script contributor Dr. Rosanne Welch puts a rightful spotlight on screenwriter Bess Meredyth, Hollywood's forgotten silent era trailblazer and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Bess Meredyth was born on 12 February 1890 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Wonder of Women (1929), Morgan's Raiders (1918) and A Woman of Affairs (1928). She was married to Michael Curtiz, Wilfred Lucas and Burton Leslie.
- February 12, 1890
- July 13, 1969
Bess Meredyth was one of the solid core of first-class screenwriters, the majority of whom were women, who began their careers in the silent era and continued to enjoy success on into the coming of sound.
Jul 28, 2023 · Though one of Silent Hollywood’s most prolific and respected screenwriters when Bess Meredyth’s own son John Meredyth Lucas wrote a memoir of his own screenwriting career, he never thought to interview his mother about her work as both a writer and producer in early Hollywood.
Bess Meredyth is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Scenario Writer, Adaptation, Story, Continuity, Dialogue, Actor, Treatment, Theatre Play, and Director. Some of her work includes The Mark of Zorro, The Unsuspected, The Mysterious Lady, That Night in Rio, Our Blushing Brides, A Woman of Affairs, Don Juan, and Romance.
