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Agnes Christine Johnston was born on Januar 11, 1896 in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American Autorinin, known for Altars of Desire (1927), Forbidden Paradise (1924), The Tower of Lies (1925), Agnes Christine Johnston's first movie on record is from 1915.
Agnes Christine Johnston is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Story, Adaptation, Scenario Writer, and treatment. Some of her work includes Show People, Movie Crazy, The Patsy, Daddy-Long-Legs, Three Wise Girls, Under Eighteen, Andy Hardy's Double Life, and Confessions of a Queen.
Volume III: Biographies JOHNSTON, Agnes Christine Scenario writer (1916-1917) Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Agnes Christine Johnson was on the staff of and wrote many scripts for the Thanhouser Film Corporation during the 1916-1917 period.
Her surviving feature from this period is the Marcus Loew production The Great Adventure (1918), starring Bessie Love, for which Agnes Christine Johnston wrote the screenplay. The couple separated and Herbert went to Hollywood, but had Guy join him there after she nearly died of the Spanish Influenza.
[Samuel Goldwyn on Agnes Christine Johnston]: Approximately 50 per cent of moving-picture audiences are composed of feminine spectators. So it is but natural that women make the best screen writers.
The Agnes Christine Johnston and Frank Dazey papers span the years 1914-1968 (bulk 1920-1939) and encompass 5.5 linear feet. The collection includes final scripts, as well as various drafts and notes for films written and collaborated on by both authors, unpublished manuscripts and unproduced scripts by both authors, as well as contracts, correspondence, clippings, other miscellaneous writings, and ephemera.
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
