Ethel La Blanche (April 17, 1904 – April 28, 1992) was an American screenwriter known for her work in the Western genre.

Biography

Ethel was born in San Francisco, California, to Valentin LaPlanche and Katherine Riley. The family moved to Los Angeles when she was young. She began working as a stenographer at a film studio in her teens, according to census records. She also dabbled in acting early on in her career, appearing in small roles in short Mack Sennett–produced films in the early 1930s. In her professional life, she went by the name Ethel La Blanche. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she wrote a string of B-movies, including ''

Pirates on Horseback ''Pirates on Horseback'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Ethel La Blanche and J. Benton Cheney. The film stars William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Eleanor Stewart, Morris Ankrum and William Haa ...

'', '' Flirting with Fate'', and ''

Exile Express ''Exile Express'' is a 1939 American drama film directed by Otis Garrett and starring Anna Sten, Alan Marshal and Jerome Cowan. Plot After being wrongly implicated in the murder of her scientist boss by foreign agents, a young immigrant woman ...

''.

Selected writing filmography

* ''

'' (1941) * ''

'' (1939) * '' Flirting with Fate'' (1938) * ''

Headin' East ''Headin' East'' is a 1937 Buck Jones Western directed by Ewing Scott. Plot Cowboy Buck Benson (Buck Jones) trades his trusty six-shooter for bare knuckles and batters his way from the wide-open plains to crack down on mob-related crime in M ...

'' (1937) * '' Hollywood Round-Up'' (1937) (dialogue) * '' Man Hunters of the Caribbean'' (1936)

References

American women screenwriters 1904 births 1992 deaths Writers from San Francisco 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screenwriter-stub