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Edna G. Riley
Edna G. Riley (also known as Edna Goldsmith Riley) (1880–1962) was an American screenwriter, author, activist, and assistant film director who worked in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood primarily during the 1910s. Biography Edna was born in Lower Lake, California, April 29, 1880, to William Goldsmith and Martha Asbill. As a young woman, she worked as a schoolteacher in her hometown. She later married playwright Edward Patrick Riley; the pair had no children together. She wrote a string of scenarios for the fledgling motion pictures in the 1910s, and she continued writing into the 1930s. In 1935, she protested against censorship in motion pictures by picketing in front of a cardinal's home in Manhattan. Her script ''All Flags Flying'' had been purchased by Paramount, but the cardinal had objected to the film's content and gotten censors to bar it from production. Selected filmography As writer: * ''All Flags Flying'' (1935) (unproduced script) * ''Before Morning'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of The United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known as Hollywood) along with some independent film, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1913 to 1969 and is still typical of most films made there to this day. While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. , it produced the third-largest number of films of any national cinema, after India and China, with more than 600 English-language films released on average every year. While the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not part of the Hollywood system. That said, Hollywood has also been considered a transnational cinema, and has produced multiple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |