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Employer | Elinor Glyn | Elinor Glyn Ltd was formed to govern her finances, to secure her the copyrights in and royalties from her films, and to help her gain negotiating credibility. As a member of the board, Rhys-Williams went... |
Employer | Zora Neale Hurston | Between 1933 and 1941, she was a Drama Professor at Bethune-Cookman College
(Daytona, Florida) and North Carolina College for Negroes
, now North Carolina Central University
. In 1941, she was a staff... |
Employer | Elinor Glyn | EG
produced and appeared as herself in her film It. Clara Bow
played the leading role. Clarence Badger
directed the film, which had been designed by Paramount
's Benjamin Schulberg
. Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994. 260-2 The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. under Elinor Glyn |
Employer | Elinor Glyn | To boost her persona as a dignified foreign lady, she called herself Madame Glyn. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton, 1937. 299-300, 309 Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994. 219-21 |
Occupation | Elinor Glyn | EG
entered the Hollywood film industry, accepting a contract with Jesse Lasky
of Famous-Players-Lasky (later Paramount)
to study film-writing and to compose film-scripts. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton, 1937. 299-300, 309 Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994. 219-21 |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | EG
signed a contract with Jesse Lasky
of Famous-Players-Lasky (later Paramount)
to write film scripts; she would earn 10,000 dollars US for each script written, and if the films did well her contract could be... |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | Under contract again with Famous-Players-Lasky (now Paramount)
, EG
adapted her popular novellaIt for silent film.Clara Bow
, who made her debut in this film, became known as the It Girl. Etherington-Smith, Meredith, and Jeremy Pilcher. The "It" Girls. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. 240-2 |
Textual Production | Elinor Glyn | EG
adapted this script for Famous-Players-Lasky
from her 1906 novel of the same title. The film, which she co-wrote with Jack Cunningham
, was released in 1922. Though it was not a good film and... |
Textual Production | Elinor Glyn | |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | AD
adapted Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
for Paramount Films
. The official title, for copyright reasons involving the film version of 1939, was Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997. 95 “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. |
Textual Production | May Edginton | This serial was adapted by Hugh Perceval
in 1931 as a black-and-white Paramount
film called Man of Mayfair, starring Jack Buchanan
and Joan Barry
. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. |
Textual Production | Madeleine Lucette Ryley | A film adaption of MLR
's Mice and Men premiered in the USA, produced by the fairly new Famous Players Company
(an ancestor of Paramount
through Famous-Players-Lasky) and directed by J. Searle Dawley
. Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007. 97 The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. |
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