Dorothy Donnell Calhoun

Dorothy Donnell Calhoun (died December 2, 1963) was a writer and a magazine editor.^[1]

Born in Maine, her parents were magazine writers and her sister Rachel became a medical doctor.^[2] Calhoun graduated from Smith College and later married Harold Calhoun, a New York City lawyer.^[3][1]

Calhoun was the West Coast editor for Motion Picture Magazine and its sister publication Motion Picture Classic from 1927 to 1935.^[1][4] Later, she worked as an assistant to Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Roosevelt, where she produced radio programs. As a writer, Calhoun wrote short stories, including the collection titled "Blue Gingham Folks".^[1] She also wrote children's stories and plays and published letters about her travels.^[5][1] She was also involved in the film world writing for publications and selling her work to be adapted to film.^[6] She worked on a screenplay for Richard Krebs and was a writer for "Sh Don't Wake the Baby", the 1915 film starring Dorothy Phillips.^[7]

Bibliography

• "A Modern Slavery" (1909)^[8]
• When Great Folks Were Little Folks (1913)^[9]
• The Book of Brave Adventures (1915)^[10]
• Blue gingham folks (1915)
• Little folks of the Bible (1915)
• Little folks in art (1915)^[11]
• Princess of Let's Pretend (1916)
• Little folks in history (1917)
• Afraidof Bis Shadow (1917)
• Cupid's column; a farce in one act (1917)
• 100 per cent American (1918)
• The parlor patriots; a comedy in one act for girls (1918)^[12]

Filmography

• Sh! Don't Wake the Baby (1915), writer