Mary Alice Scully (1902-1978) 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. ...

active during the 1920s.

Biography

Mary Alice was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Phillip Scully and Mary Ahearn. She attended Ten-Acre School and

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before going off to Wellesley; she left without a degree in order to take care of her sick mother. The pair headed west to California for her mother's health, where Mary Alice studied shorthand, won typing awards, opened a public stenographer service, served as secretary to

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, and eventually gained work at a film studio. Eventually she got the chance to work on her own screenplays and adaptations; by 1925, she had sold four scripts to First National and six more to other studios. She formed a collaboration with Arthur F. Statter, secretary of the

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. In 1928, she married actor and screenwriter Pierre Gendron in Riverside, California. The pair had two children, Peter and Diane. She seems to have retired from filmmaking at this point.

Filmography

* '' The Mine with the Iron Door'' (1924) * '' The Re-Creation of Brian Kent'' (1925) * ''

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'' (1925) * '' Stella Maris'' (1925) * '' Brooding Eyes'' (1926) * '' Whispering Canyon'' (1926) * ''

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'' (1927) (adaptation)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scully, Mary Alice American women screenwriters 1902 births 1978 deaths Wellesley College alumni Screenwriters from Massachusetts 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters