Bradley King – Women Film Pioneers Projectby Brian Taves. During the preliminary research that culminated in my volume Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure (Mc. Farland 2. 00. 5), I investigated the anomaly of the book Her Reputation, titled The Bubble Reputation in the UK, Mundy’s sole literary collaboration as well as the only book he wrote with a “photoplay edition” motion picture tie- in. Who was his coauthor, Bradley King? The standard references offered only a long list of credits. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had two clippings, revealing that “Bradley” was not a man, but an attractive female brunette. County and city legal records were the next recourse, and other bits came from brief mentions in articles and papers, found as I began researching a biography of producer Thomas Ince (1. From this research I realized that, despite King’s obscurity today, she ranked as one of the leading female screenwriters during the 1. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for The Lovelorn (1927) - J.P. McCarthy on AllMovie - The Lovelorn was inspired by the popular 'advice. The Lovelorn (1927) Love, Luck and Gasoline (1914) The Love Lute of Romany (1914) Lovely Mary (1916) The Love Magnet (1916) Love Makes ’em Wild (1927) Lovemania (1924). McCarthy; Born March 17, 1884 San Francisco, California, United States: Died. The Lovelorn (1927) - director; Diamond Handcuffs (1928) - director. Bradley King (w/o). Bradley King was born Josephine Mc. Laughlin in 1. 89. Daughter of a physician, she was educated at Sacred Heart Convent in New York City. Articles about her report that she stood five foot three inches in height, with brown hair and blue eyes. Her brother Barnum Brown later served as the head of the dinosaur department of New York’s American Museum of Natural History. Young Josephine initially wanted to be an actress, but, according to the Los Angeles Times, failure to achieve this goal led to a job as a stenographer for a motion picture scenarist who paid her $1. When the writer stalked out of the studio one day — taking the script of a production that was ready to begin — Josephine suggested that the director use one of her own stories (Winship 6. By 1. 91. 6 she was writing scenarios under her own name at the Lubin Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, then in 1. Bradley King. She lived in San Diego for two years, where her naval officer husband was hoping to become an actor. She returned to motion pictures in 1. August by Thomas Ince; her contracts with him survive in the Ince papers at the Library of Congress. He initially signed her to a long- term contract at $1. Allan Forrest (1885-1941) Allan Forrest was born Allan Forrest Fisher on September 5th. Ernest Brooks Ankles Preferred (1927). Streaming resources for John P. McCarthy The Lovelorn. Links to watch this USA Drama, Romance Movie online. Pictures from the 1927 Lair Yearbook of RHS - Rockdale TX. Rockdale,TX Class of 1965. ADVICE TO LOVELORN—Send for booklet. The Lovelorn: The Lovelorn is a 1927 American drama silent film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Frederic Hatton and Bradley King. The film stars Sally O'Neil. The ability to learn continuity writing and dramatic structure and to adapt to any genre soon made her the most important Ince scenarist. By late 1. 92. 4, her salary advanced to nearly $7. She also began writing for the stage, including a theatrical adaptation for Ince of her script for A Man of Action (1. Her Reputation, King’s only “book,” was actually Talbot Mundy’s novelization of her script, written to add market appeal to adaptation- minded filmgoers. For the work, both received an equal weekly salary, although King was by then earning a $1,5. Later, Mundy recalled that King “. King and Mundy had been brought together by mutual friend Larry Trimble; King held a financial interest in Trimble’s Strongheart dog pictures, and subsequently King and Trimble became romantically involved for two years. In addition to her credits on completed Thomas Ince productions, King scripted many of his unproduced projects. Among these was The Just and the Unjust, an adaptation of the popular 1. Vaughan Kester novel that was to have been helmed by Ince’s primary director, John Griffith Wray. King and Wray finally filmed it in 1. Fox Film Corporation as Hell’s 4. Ince player Margaret Livingston. After Ince’s death in 1. King began freelancing for various studios, making $1. On October 6, 1. 92. Some Known Still Codes Part 2: Codes starting with numbers. Most stills will have a number or letter sequence, which identifies the film, and a. The cast of The Lovelorn - 1927 includes: George Cooper as Joe Sprotte Dorothy Cumming as Beatrice Fairfax Charles Delaney as Jimmy Allan Forrest as Ernest Brooks. King and Wray married. As she explained, the two had disagreed about many love scenes in the past while under Ince, but after working at different studios, they began to miss one another’s company. She briefly changed her name to Bradley King Wray. John Griffith Wray had just completed his first “talkie” production when he died of appendicitis at age forty- seven on July 1. King his estate of $1. A newspaper morgue of clippings at the University of Southern California Special Collections Library recounts details of the brief marriage. Slide What a Wife Learned (1. Bradley King (w/o). Mo. MIKing spent much of the time after Wray’s death traveling, hoping to improve her own poor health. While she was in Honolulu developing a screen epic based on the ancient peoples of Hawaii, she met George Hiram Boyd, a thirty- six- year- old building contractor who had previously been a stage entertainer. They were married October 3. Although King was raised as a Catholic (and her mother was a Quaker), this marriage was conducted by Reverend Ernest Holmes, Divine Science Minister of the Institute of Religious Science—better known as “Science of Mind.” King worked steadily through 1. Boyd lost her entire fortune of $4. In 1. 94. 0, she divorced Boyd and returned to screenwriting in 1. That’s My Man (1. Subsequently, King vanished from the film industry, and not even the date of her death is known. She is absent from modern Hollywood histories, and while most of her sound films exist, nearly all of her roughly forty silent feature films are lost today. Her only major extant silent movie, Anna Christie (1. Blanche Sweet, has been forgotten in favor of the 1. Greta Garbo remake. Selected Bibliography“Girl Who Has Written Scenarios Gives Sound Advice to Learners.” Washington Post (1. July 1. 92. 3): 5. King, Bradley. 1. Letter to Rose Wilder Lane. Rose Wilder Lane Collection. HH. Palmer, Edwin Obadiah. Hollywood: Cawston, 1. Winship, Mary. 1. Writer’s Rise to Fame Phenomenal.” Los Angeles Times (7 June 1. AMPAS- SC. Cinema Library Clipping Files. USC- CAL. The Rose Wilder Lane Collection. LOC- MD. Complete Project Bibliographies. Filmography. A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Bradley King as Screenwriter. Beyond the Cross Roads. Dir.: Lloyd Carleton, st.: Bradley King (Pioneer Film Corp. US 1. 92. 0) cas.: Ora Carew, Lawson Butt, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW. Lying Lips. Dir.: John Griffith Wray, sc.: Bradley King. US 1. 92. 1) cas.: House Peters, Florence Vidor, si, b& w, 3. Archive: USW. Anna Christie. Ince, Dir.: John Griffith Wray, sc.: Bradley King (First National US 1. Blanche Sweet, William Russell, Eugenie Besserer, si, b& w. Archive: USM. Declassee. Vignola, sc.: Charles E. Whittaker, Bradley King, au.: Zoe Akins (Corinne Griffith Prod. US 1. 92. 5) cas.: Corinne Griffith, Lloyd Hughes, Clive Brook, si, b& w, 8 reels, 7,7. Archive: GBB, USW (trailer). Filmography: Not Extant Titles: 1. Screenwriter as Josephine Mc. Laughlin. Jackstraws, 1. Playthings of the Gods, 1. Prisoners of Conscience, 1. Scapegrace; 1. 91. Sons of the Sea, 1. The Wheat and the Chaff, 1. Screenwriter as Bradley King. Footlights and Shadows, 1. The Girl From Nowhere, 1. I Am Guilty, 1. 92. The Miracle of Manhattan, 1. Her Reputation, 1. The Love Letter, 1. A Man of Action, 1. The Sunshine Trail, 1. What a Wife Learned, 1. Broken Laws, 1. 92. The Chorus Lady, 1. Christine of the Hungry Heart, 1. Enticement, 1. 92. The Marriage Whirl/Modern Madness, 1. Satan in Sables, 1. When the Door Opened, 1. The Gilded Butterfly, 1. Hell's 4. 00, 1. 92. Marriage License? The Palace of Pleasure, 1. The Return of Peter Grimm, 1. The Lovelorn, 1. 92. Mockery, 1. 92. 7; One Increasing Purpose, 1. Diamond Handcuffs, 1. The Gateway of the Moon, 1. Under the Black Eagle, 1. Morgan's Last Raid, 1. Scarlet Seas, 1. 92. Credit Report. All credits attributed to Josephine Mc. Laughlin do not appear in Braff or the AFI catalog, but are referenced in Paul Spehr and the Library of Congress Copyright Office records. USW only has the second reel of Lying Lips. Citation. Taves, Brian. Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2.
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