Charles Kenyon (November 2, 1880 – June 27, 1961) was an American
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 or co-wrote the screenplays for more than 110 films between 1915 and 1946. He was married to actress
Jane Winton
Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959) was an American film actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter.
Early years
Winton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1905. The deaths of her father when she was four year ...
from 1927 to 1930. Kenyon was born in
San Francisco, California
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and died in
Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, ...
.
Partial filmography
* ''
Mignon
''Mignon'' is an 1866 ''opéra comique'' (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas. The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethe's 1795-96 novel '' Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre''. The ...
'' (1915)
* ''
Kindling
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Kindling may also refer to:
* ''Kindling'' (album), a 1973 album by Gene Parsons
* ''Kindling'' (film), a 1915 film by Cecil B. DeMille
* ''Kindling'' (Mick Farren novel)
* ''Ruined City'' (novel) or ''Ki ...
'' (1915)
* ''
The Fighting Grin
''The Fighting Grin'' is a 1918 American silent comedy Western film directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Franklyn Farnum, Edith Johnson and J. Morris Foster.
Cast
* Franklyn Farnum as Billy Kennedy
* Edith Johnson as Margie Meredith
* J ...
'' (1918)
* ''
Cupid's Round Up
''Cupid's Round Up'' is a lost 1918 American silent Western film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Tom Mix. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. This was Mix's first film with Fox.Painted Lips
''Painted Lips'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Louise Lovely, Alfred Allen and Lew Cody.Connelly p.393
Cast
* Louise Lovely as Lou McTavish
* Alfred Allen as Capt. McTavish
* Lew Cody as Jim Dougla ...
'' (1918)
* ''
Nobody's Wife'' (1918)
* ''
The Claim'' (1918)
* ''
Wings of the Morning'' (1919)
* ''
The Feud'' (1919)
* ''
Married in Haste
''Married in Haste'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Albert Ray, Elinor Fair and Robert Klein.Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36'' 40(2). December Press, 1998. p. 384.
C ...
'' (1919)
* ''
The Wilderness Trail
''The Wilderness Trail'' is 1919 American silent Western film directed by Edward J. Le Saint and starring Tom Mix and Colleen Moore. It was one of the first of two films that featured Mix and Moore. ''The Wilderness Trail'' is based on the 19 ...
'' (1919)
''The Wilderness Trail''
at silentera.com
* '' The Penalty'' (1920)
* ''Stop Thief!
''Stop Thief!'' is a 1901 British short silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually q ...
'' (1920)
* ''A Tale of Two Worlds
''A Tale of Two Worlds'' is a 1921 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures and directed by Frank Lloyd. The film stars several well-known actors including Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery, Edythe Chapman, and J. Frank ...
'' (1921)
* ''The Invisible Power
''The Invisible Power'' is a 1921 American crime film, crime melodrama film directed by Frank Lloyd and released by Goldwyn Pictures.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Sid Chambers (Peters), a thief, is released from prison and rejoins his p ...
'' (1921)
* '' Beating the Game'' (1921)
* '' The Christian'' (1923)
* ''Second Hand Love
''Second Hand Love'' is a 1923 American film directed by William A. Wellman.
Cast
*Buck Jones as Andy Hanks (*as Charles Jones)
*Ruth Dwyer as Angela Trent
* Charles Coleman as Dugg
* Harvey Clark as Scratch, The Detective
*Frank Weed as Deacon ...
'' (1923)
* '' Railroaded'' (1923)
* ''Brass Commandments
''Brass Commandments'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring William Farnum, Wanda Hawley, and Tom Santschi. The novel of the same name by Charles Alden Seltzer that the film is based upon was later fil ...
'' (1923)
* ''White Tiger
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'' (1923)
* ''Hoodman Blind
''Hoodman Blind'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John Ford. It is a remake of a 1913 film of the same name directed by James Gordon and a 1916 William Farnum Fox feature titled ''A Man of Sorrow'' and based on the play '' H ...
'' (1923)
* ''The Lone Chance
''The Lone Chance'' was a 1924 silent American drama film directed by Howard M. Mitchell and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is now considered lost.
Cast
* John Gilbert as Jack Saunders
* Evelyn Brent as Margaret West
* John Miljan as Lew B ...
'' (1924)
* ''The Desert Outlaw
''The Desert Outlaw'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Edmund Mortimer and starring Evelyn Brent. Prints of the film survive in the Czech Film Archive.
Cast
* Buck Jones as Sam Langdon
* Evelyn Brent as May Halloway
* DeWit ...
'' (1924)
* '' The Iron Horse'' (1924)
* '' Hearts of Oak'' (1924)
* ''Dick Turpin
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'' (1925)
* ''Scandal Proof
''Scandal Proof'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Mortimer and written by Charles Kenyon. The film stars Shirley Mason, John Roche, Freeman Wood, Hazel Howell, Frances Raymond, and Ruth King. The film was released o ...
'' (1925)
* ''The Old Soak
''The Old Soak'' is a 1926 American silent comedy crime film directed by Edward Sloman. The film stars Jean Hersholt, George J. Lewis, and June Marlowe, and is based on a 1922 Broadway play of the same title by Don Marquis. The play was late ...
'' (1926)
* ''The Still Alarm
''The Still Alarm'' is a melodramatic play by Joseph Arthur that debuted in New York in 1887 and enjoyed great success, and was adapted to silent films in 1911, 1918, and 1926. Though never a favorite of critics, it achieved widespread popularit ...
'' (1926)
* ''The Foreign Legion
''The Foreign Legion'' is a 1928 American silent film, silent adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, and Mary Nolan. The film is based on the 1913 novel ''The Red Mirage'' by I.A.R. Wylie. It was one of ...
'' (1928)
* ''Jazz Mad
''Jazz Mad'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Jean Hersholt, Marian Nixon, and George J. Lewis. It was produced and released by Universal Pictures.
Cast
*Jean Hersholt as Franz Hausmann
* Marian N ...
'' (1928)
* '' The Crash'' (1928)
* ''Girl on the Barge
''The Girl on the Barge'' is a 1929 American drama film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Jean Hersholt and Sally O'Neil. Released during the transition to talkies, the Universal Pictures production was essentially a silent film with some ta ...
'' (1929)
* ''Show Boat
''Show Boat'' is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock worke ...
'' (1929)
* ''Recaptured Love
''Recaptured Love'' is a 1930 early talkie pre-Code musical drama film based on the play ''Misdeal'' by Basil Woon about a man who experiences a mid life crisis that results in his divorce. It stars Belle Bennett and John Halliday.
Plot
In this ...
'' (1930)
* '' The Office Wife'' (1930)
* '' My Past'' (1931)
* ''Party Husband
''Party Husband'' is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film produced by First National Pictures and released through their parent company Warner Bros. It was directed by Clarence G. Badger and stars Dorothy Mackaill. It is preserved at the Librar ...
'' (1931)
* '' Street of Women'' (1932)
* ''Dr. Monica
''Dr. Monica'' is a 1934 American pre-Code melodrama film produced by Warner Bros. starring Kay Francis, Warren William, and Jean Muir. An obstetrician, who is unable to have children, discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathe ...
'' (1934)
* ''The Goose and the Gander
''The Goose and the Gander'' is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Genevieve Tobin. A woman finds out her ex-husband's new wife is cheating on him and decides to expose he ...
'' (1935)
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...
'' (1935)
* ''The Petrified Forest
''The Petrified Forest'' is a 1936 American film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written ...
'' (1936)
* '' The Golden Arrow'' (1936)
* ''One Hundred Men and a Girl
''One Hundred Men and a Girl'' (styled 100 Men and a Girl in advertising) is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin and the maestro Leopold Stokowski. Written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning, and ...
'' (1937)
* '' The Road to Reno'' (1938)
* ''The Lady Objects
''The Lady Objects'' is a 1938 American drama film written by Gladys Lehman and Charles Kenyon and directed by Erle C. Kenton. It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Song at the 11th Academy Awards with the song ''A Mist Over the Moon'', wit ...
'' (1938)
* ''Highway West
''Highway West'' is a 1941 American crime film directed by William C. McGann and starring Brenda Marshall, Arthur Kennedy and William Lundigan. It is a remake of the 1934 film ''Heat Lightning''.Goble p.1
The film's sets were designed by the art ...
'' (1941)
* ''The Unwritten Code
''The Unwritten Code'' is a 1944 American drama film directed by Herman Rotsten and written by Leslie T. White and Charles Kenyon. The film stars Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Roland Varno, Howard Freeman, Mary Currier and Bobby Larson. The film was re ...
'' (1944)
* '' Strange Journey'' (1946)
References
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1880 births
1961 deaths
American male screenwriters
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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