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Lorna Moon (born Nora Helen Wilson Low; 16 June 1886 – 1 May 1930 [1]) was a Scottish author and screenwriter from the early days of Hollywood. She is best known as the author of the bestselling novel Dark Star (1929) and as one of the earliest and most successful female screenwriters.
Sep 10, 2023 · Lorna Moon would become a leading author and screenwriter during the fledgling days of Hollywood, writing some of the most successful films of Hollywood's early era.
Dec 14, 2022 · Between her start as a Scottish author to her time as a Hollywood screenwriter Lorna Moon lived a life meant for the movies, yet no one has tackled her bio-pic yet. Script contributor Dr. Rosanne Welch celebrates the female screenwriters who came before us with this month's spotlight on prolific screenwriter and author Lorna Moon.
Although she told several versions of the story, in 1920, Scottish-born Lorna Moon left her job in Minneapolis for Hollywood at the invitation of Cecil B. DeMille after sending him a critique of Male and Female (1920) in which she “razzed him wickedly” for embellishing the original Scottish play (de Mille 1998, 176).
Her incarnation as 1920s Hollywood script writer opens the play; the banning of her 1925 collection of stories Doorways in Drumorty from Strichen Library provides its penultimate scene. Moon’s vivacity of style is well-represented and the Scots voices are engaging.
Lorna Moon was born on 16 June 1886 in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. She was a writer, known for Don't Tell Everything (1921), Upstage (1926) and Min and Bill (1930). She was married to William Hebditch. She died on 1 May 1930 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Apr 13, 2019 · SHE remains one of the most remarkable women to hail from the North East of Scotland and now Lorna Moon’s stories are being brought to life in a new production of Doorways in Drumorty, by playwright and author Mike Gibb, who co-wrote Outlander, the Musical.
