Bradley King ( – August 24, 1977) was the pen name of Josephine McLaughlin. She was a
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947. All but one of her 40
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
s are lost, but most of her 20 or so sound films still exist.
Biography
King was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Albany, New York.
King recalled that she entered the business after selling a few short stories to pulp magazines and arranged a meeting with Thomas Ince. "I've read some of your stuff and I think your literary style is absolutely lousy," she later recounted Ince saying. "But you've got a good sense of drama, and I'll give you $50 a week." Five years later, she was making $1,500 a week.
She was married several times. One was a short marriage to silent film director
John Griffith Wray
John Griffith Wray (August 30, 1881 – July 15, 1929) was an American stage actor and director who later became a noted Hollywood silent film director. He worked on 19 films between 1913 in film, 1913 and 1929 in film, 1929 that included ''Anna C ...
, who died just nine months after their October 1928 wedding.
[John G. Wray Marries. ''New York Times'', October 8, 1928, p. 15] After a later husband, George Hiram Boyd, lost most of her $400,000 fortune ($ million today) to bad investments, she divorced him in 1940.
She wrote her last screenplay for the 1947 movie ''
That's My Man
''That's My Man'' is a 1947 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage, written by Steve Fisher (writer), Steve Fisher and Bradley King (screenwriter), Bradley King, and starring Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely, Kitty ...
'' and disappeared at age 53. She had been having poor health. She was never heard from again, and there is no known record of her death.
Partial filmography
* ''
Footlights and Shadows'' (1920)
* ''
The Girl from Nowhere'' (1921)
* ''
Lying Lips
''Lying Lips'' is a 1939 American melodrama race film written and directed by Oscar Micheaux who co-produced the film with aviator Hubert Fauntlenroy Julian, starring Edna Mae Harris, and Robert Earl Jones (the father of James Earl Jones). ''Lyi ...
'' (1921)
* ''
I Am Guilty
''I Am Guilty'' (german: Falscher Bekenner) is a 2005 German drama film directed by Christoph Hochhäusler. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Constantin von Jascheroff - Armin Steeb
* ...
'' (1921)
* ''
Beyond the Crossroads'' (1922)
* ''
A Man of Action'' (
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
)
* ''
Anna Christie
''Anna Christie'' is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich, the orig ...
'' (1923)
* ''
Christine of the Hungry Heart
''Christine of the Hungry Heart'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Florence Vidor. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and released through First National Pictures.
Plot
As described in a review in ...
'' (1924)
* ''
The Chorus Lady
''The Chorus Lady'' is a 1915 American comedy silent film directed by Frank Reicher. The screenplay was by Marion Fairfax and James Forbes. The film stars Cleo Ridgely, Marjorie Daw, Wallace Reid, Richard Grey and Mrs. Lewis McCord.
It is bas ...
'' (1924)
* ''
Enticement
''Enticement'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Mary Astor, Clive Brook, and Ian Keith.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, Leonore Bewlay (Astor), recently grown into womanhood, wh ...
'' (1925)
* ''
When the Door Opened
''When the Door Opened'' is a lost 1925 American silent Northern film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Jacqueline Logan, Walter McGrail, Margaret Livingston, Robert Cain, Frank Keenan, and Roy Laidlaw. It was written by Bradley King. ...
'' (1925)
* ''
The Gilded Butterfly
''The Gilded Butterfly'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Alma Rubens, Bert Lytell, and Huntley Gordon.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Linda Haverhill is left penniless a ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Palace of Pleasure'' (1926)
* ''
Hell's Four Hundred
''Hell's Four Hundred'', sometimes listed as ''Hell's 400'', is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Margaret Livingston, Harrison Ford, and Henry Kolker. An allegorical dream sequence towards the end of ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Return of Peter Grimm'' (1926)
* ''
The Lovelorn
''The Lovelorn'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Frederic Hatton and Bradley King. The film stars Sally O'Neil, Molly O'Day, Larry Kent, James Murray, and Charles Delaney. The film was releas ...
'' (1927)
* ''
Under the Black Eagle
''Under the Black Eagle'' is a 1928 American silent World War I drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, written by Norman Houston, Bradley King, and Madeleine Ruthven, and starring Ralph Forbes, Marceline Day, Bert Roach, William Fairbanks, an ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Diamond Handcuffs
''Diamond Handcuffs'' is a 1928 American drama silent film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Joseph Farnham, Willis Goldbeck and Bradley King. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Lawrence Gray, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee and Lena Malena. The ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Scarlet Seas
''Scarlet Seas'' is a surviving 1929 American silent romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compso ...
'' (1929)
* ''
Drag'' (1929)
* ''
Weary River
''Weary River'' is a 1929 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and William Holden (no relation to William Holden, star of such films as ''Sunset Boulevard''). Produced and distri ...
'' (1929)
* ''
The Squall
''The Squall'' is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce and Loretta Young, and based on the 1926 play ''The Squall'' by Jean Bart.
Plot
In Hungary, a beautiful, young ...
'' (1929)
* ''
Young Nowheres
''Young Nowheres'' is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach. It was produced and released by First National Pictures with Vitaphone soundtrack. It was released in silent ...
'' (1929)
* ''
Drag'' (1929)
* ''
Dark Streets'' (1929)
* ''
Son of the Gods
''Son of the Gods'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code romantic drama film with Technicolor sequences, produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by ...
'' (
1930
Events
January
* January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...
)
* ''
Wild Company
''Wild Company'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Leo McCarey and written by Bradley King. The film stars Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn, H. B. Warner, Richard Keene and Frances McCoy. The film was released on Jul ...
'' (1930)
* ''
The Way of All Men
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'' (1930)
* ''
The Lash'' (1930)
* ''
The Mask Falls
''The Mask Falls'' (German: ''Die Maske fällt'') is a 1931 American drama film directed by William Dieterle
William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German-born actor and film director who emigrated to the United States i ...
'' (1931)
* ''
A Passport to Hell'' (1932)
* ''
Six Hours to Live
''Six Hours to Live'' is a 1932 American pre-Code science fiction drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Warner Baxter, Miriam Jordan and John Boles.Solomon p.336
Cast
* Warner Baxter as Capt. Paul Onslow
* Miriam Jordan as Ba ...
'' (1932)
* ''
Humanity
Humanity most commonly refers to:
* Humankind the total population of humans
* Humanity (virtue)
Humanity may also refer to:
Literature
* Humanity (journal), ''Humanity'' (journal), an academic journal that focuses on human rights
* ''Humanity: A ...
'' (1933)
* ''
Let's Live Tonight
''Let's Live Tonight'' is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Lilian Harvey, Tullio Carminati and Janet Beecher. The film was made as part of an unsuccessful attempt to establish Harvey, who was a top ...
'' (1935)
* ''
Maid of Salem
''Maid of Salem'' is a 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.
Plot
It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with an adventurer. ...
'' (
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
)
References
External links
*
Bradley Kingat Women Film Pioneers Project
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1894 births
1977 deaths
American women screenwriters
20th-century American women writers
Screenwriters from Illinois
People from Chicago
Writers from Chicago
20th-century American screenwriters