Mary Alice Scully

Mary Alice Scully
1925 advertisement
BornOctober 26, 1902
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
DiedJuly 1, 1978 (aged 75)
San Diego, California, USA
OccupationScreenwriter
SpousePierre Gendron (1928-1956)

Mary Alice Scully (1902-1978) was an American screenwriter active during the 1920s.

Biography

Mary Alice was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Phillip Scully and Mary Ahearn. She attended Ten-Acre School and Dana Hall before going off to Wellesley; she left without a degree in order to take care of her sick mother.

The pair headed west to California for her mother's health, where Mary Alice studied shorthand, won typing awards, opened a public stenographer service, served as secretary to Christine Wetherill Stevenson, and eventually gained work at a film studio.[1]

Eventually she got the chance to work on her own screenplays and adaptations; by 1925, she had sold four scripts to First National and six more to other studios.[2] She formed a collaboration with Arthur F. Statter, secretary of the Screen Writers Guild.[3]

In 1928, she married actor and screenwriter Pierre Gendron in Riverside, California.[4] The pair had two children, Peter and Diane. She seems to have retired from filmmaking at this point.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Sugar and Spice". The Los Angeles Times. 12 Jul 1925. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  2. ^ "Authoress Arrives by Hard Study". The Los Angeles Times. 7 Jun 1925. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  3. ^ "Partners at Work on New Scenario". The Los Angeles Times. 17 Jul 1924. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  4. ^ "Screen Writer Weds Broker". The Los Angeles Times. 30 Sep 1928. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
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