In the decade between 1924 and 1934 Zelda Sears earned credits on over 27 films for everything from having one of her plays adapted to adapting her own theatrical scripts to writing original scripts directly for the screen. Born Zelda Paldi in 1873 in Brockway Township, Michigan she made her way to Broadway as an actress first, as many women did – …

Born on Christmas Day in 1876 in Massachusetts, Dix and her family lived in various cities around the historic state until she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study English and History at Radcliffe College. There she became the first female to be granted the Sohier Literary Prize, for the best thesis of a Harvard or Radcliffe student. From the…

The surname DeMille (or de Mille) brings up thoughts of the famous line from Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler’s Sunset Boulevard “Mr. de Mille, I’m ready for my close up” which references silent screen director Cecil. Perhaps people remember his brother, William, who started as a playwright and became a Hollywood director and joined 3rd wife Clara…

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