Clara Genevieve Kennedy was an American screenwriter and author active during Hollywood's silent era. She wrote most of her scripts for Paramount.

Biography

Clara was born in

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, to Frederick Kennedy and Clara Lane. Her sister was screenwriter

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. She married Rev. Ivan Melville Terwilliger in Los Angeles in 1922; the pair had two children. She died in

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, in 1982.

Selected filmography

* '' Glass Houses'' (1922) * '' Eyes of the Heart'' (1920) * ''

A City Sparrow ''A City Sparrow'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and written by Kate Jordan and Clara Genevieve Kennedy. The film stars Ethel Clayton, Walter Hiers, Clyde Fillmore, Lillian Leighton, William Boyd, and Rose Cade. T ...

'' (1920) * ''

Sick Abed ''Sick Abed'' is a 1920 silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures/Artcraft, an affiliate of Paramount. It was directed by Sam Wood and stars matinee idol Wallace Reid. It is based on a 1918 Broadw ...

'' (1920) * ''

The Dancin' Fool ''The Dancin' Fool'' is a surviving 1920 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Sam Wood directed this one of his earliest efforts. Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels star, at the ...

'' (1920) * ''

Double Speed ''Double Speed'' is a lost 1920 American silent comedy-drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was the debut directorial effort of Sam Wood and starred Wallace Reid in another of his racing car film ...

'' (1920) * '' You're Fired'' (1919) * ''

An Innocent Adventuress ''An Innocent Adventuress'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Robert G. Vignola and written by Clara Genevieve Kennedy. The film stars Vivian Martin, Lloyd Hughes, Edythe Chapman, Gertrude Norman, Jane Wolfe, and Tom Bates ...

'' (1919)

References

Screenwriters from Tennessee American women screenwriters 1892 births 1982 deaths People from Monteagle, Tennessee 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-1890s-stub