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Becky Gardiner
American screenwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Becky Gardiner (born Rebeckah McCormick McLean; April 24, 1886; year of death unknown) was an American screenwriter and actress active in the 1920s and 1930s. She was noted for writing screenplays that focused on women.[1]
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Biography
Gardiner was born into a prominent Maryland family; her father, Donald McLean, was a lawyer, and his wife, Emily Nelson Ritchie, was related to Maryland Gov. Albert Ritchie.[2][3] On June 12, 1909,[4] she married writer John D. W. Gardiner; they had one daughter, Emily, who became an author as well.[5]
John died in 1936, and she remarried to Thomas H. Gillespie on March 16, 1949.[6][7]
Gardiner got her start as an actress in New York City, performing in small roles in the early 1910s under the name Becky Bruce.[8][9][10] She turned her attention to writing in the 1920s, studying in Paris at the Sorbonne and writing a column called "Footlights and Studio Lamps" for The Evening Sun; she eventually went under contract at Famous Players–Lasky, where she was the only woman on the East Coast writing staff.[5][11] She also worked at Fox and Paramount.[8]
Films for which Gardiner wrote adaptations included Sea Horses (1926) and Padlocked (1926).[12] She also wrote the scenario for War Nurse (1930).[13]
Her date of death is unknown.
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Selected filmography
- The Great Gatsby (1926)
- Padlocked (1926)
- Sea Horses (1926)
- Cabaret (1927)
- Love's Greatest Mistake (1927)
- New York (1927)
- Square Crooks (1928)
- The Sin Sister (1929)
- The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
- War Nurse (1930)
- A Free Soul (1931)
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
- Coming Out Party (1934)
- Stingaree (1934)
References
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