Gertrude Marion Burton (''née'' Hopkins June 8, 1875 – January 3, 1952), also known by her married name, Gertrude Bergen, was an American screenwriter, reporter, and playwright active during Hollywood's silent era.
Biography
Burton was born into an affluent family in
Stillwater, Minnesota, and raised primarily in San Francisco. She was the only child of Jesse Pease Hopkins and Ella Clewell.
She was educated at the Irving Institute in San Francisco, and eventually graduated from
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...
in Boston.
[''Motion Picture Studio Directory, 1919''; Page: ''218'']
As a writer, her work appeared in publications like ''Parisienne'', ''Collier's Smart Set'', ''
Town and Country'', and ''
Vanity Fair'', and she also wrote a number of screenplays for director
E.H. Griffith.
Her weekly column called "Broadway Silhouettes" ran in several newspapers.
She married Henry Hannah Bergen in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. The pair resided at the
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in Manhattan.
Selected filmography
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Out with the Tide
''Out with the Tide'' is a 1928 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Charles Hutchison and starring Dorothy Dwan, Cullen Landis and Crauford Kent.Munden p.579
Cast
* Dorothy Dwan as Joan Renshaw
* Cullen Landis as John Templeton ...
'' (1928)
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Golden Shackles
''Golden Shackles'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Grant Withers, Priscilla Bonner and LeRoy Mason.Munden p.304
Cast
* Grant Withers as Frank Fordyce
* Priscilla Bonner
Priscilla Bonn ...
'' (1928)
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Burnt Fingers'' (1927)
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Another Scandal'' (1924)
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Untamed Youth'' (1924)
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The Custard Cup'' (1923)
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The Face on the Bar-Room Floor'' (1923)
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The Woman Game
''The Woman Game'' is a 1920 silent film society drama directed by William P. S. Earle and starring Elaine Hammerstein and Jere Austin. It was produced and released by Selznick Pictures Corporation. It is a surviving silent held in the Library o ...
'' (1920)
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Thin Ice'' (1919)
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The Unknown Quantity'' (1919)
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Miss Dulcie from Dixie
''Miss Dulcie from Dixie'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Gleason and starring Gladys Leslie, Charles Kent, Arthur Donaldson, Julia Swayne Gordon, and James W. Morrison. It is based on the 1917 novel of the same name by ...
'' (1919)
* ''
The Wishing Ring Man
''The Wishing Ring Man'' is a 1919 American silent drama film produced by Vitagraph Studios and directed by David Smith. It was based on the novel by Margaret Widdemer, and stars Bessie Love, with J. Frank Glendon in the title role.
The film i ...
'' (1919)
References
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1875 births
1952 deaths
People from Stillwater, Minnesota
American women screenwriters
Emerson College alumni
Screenwriters from Minnesota