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Bess Meredyth (born Helen Elizabeth MacGlashan, [citation needed] February 12, 1890 – July 13, 1969) was a screenwriter and silent film actress. The wife of film director Michael Curtiz , Meredyth wrote The Affairs of Cellini (1934) and adapted The Unsuspected (1947).
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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Sep 15, 2021 · Bess Meredyth. Meredyth studied piano as a child and worked on vaudeville in what were called ‘pianologues’, presentations that involved playing while singing or reciting. As with many of these early female screenwriters, she entered the industry as an extra, joining the Biograph Company in 1911. She soon realized that she could make more ...
Bess Meredyth was equally adept with women’s films, however, and notably adapted a series of delicate vehicles for Greta Garbo, including Michael Arlen’s racy novel The Green Hat, which was produced by MGM as A Woman of Affairs (1928). Meredyth was faced with the more or less impossible task of maintaining narrative coherence while evading Production Code censure of the novel’s original narrative material, which involved venereal disease, alcoholism, infidelity, unwed pregnancy, and ...
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. Like many of the other women writers, Meredyth had early work in short-story and newspaper writing, as well as in vaudeville and stage acting.
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.
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.
