Josephine McLaughlin (July 8, 1889 – August 24, 1977) was a

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947. All but one of her 40

silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...

s are lost, but most of her 20 or so sound films still exist. Bradley King was a

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she used.

Biography

McLaughlin was born in New York city, possibly on July 8, and most probably in 1889. Other sources give her birth date as 1894, but she was listed as age 16 in the 1905 census, and Dettwyler confirms her birth date with other extant records. She was educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart (later Kenwood) in Albany, New York. McLaughlin recalled that she entered the business after selling a few short stories to pulp magazines and arranged a meeting with silent era filmmaker Thomas Ince. "I've read some of your stuff and I think your literary style is absolutely lousy," she later recounted Ince saying. "But you've got a good sense of drama, and I'll give you $50 a week." Five years later, she was making $1,500 a week. She was married four times. One was a short marriage to silent film director

John Griffith Wray John Griffith Wray (August 30, 1881 – July 15, 1929) was an American stage actor and director who later became a noted Hollywood silent film director. He worked on 19 films between 1913 and 1929 that included ''Anna Christie'' (1923) and '' Huma ...

, who died just nine months after their October 1928 wedding. After a later husband, George Hiram Boyd, lost most of her $400,000 fortune ($ million today) to bad investments, she divorced him in 1940. She married Albert C. Windley in 1944. They remained married until his death in 1969. She sometimes went by the name Bradley King Windley. She wrote her last screenplay for the 1947 movie ''

That's My Man ''That's My Man'' is a 1947 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage, written by Steve Fisher and Bradley King, and starring Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely, Kitty Irish and Joe Frisco. It was released on June 1, ...

.'' She died in 1977.

Partial filmography

* '' Jack Straws'' (1916) * '' Footlights and Shadows'' (1920) * '' The Girl from Nowhere'' (1921) * '' Lying Lips'' (1921) * ''

I Am Guilty ''I Am Guilty'' () is a 2005 German drama film directed by Christoph Hochhäusler. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Constantin von Jascheroff as Armin Steeb * Manfred Zapatka as Martin S ...

'' (1921) * '' Beyond the Crossroads'' (1922) * '' A Man of Action'' (

1923 In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Thursday, 1 March ' ...

) * ''

Anna Christie ''Anna Christie'' is a Play (theatre), play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway theatre, Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According ...

'' (1923) * '' Christine of the Hungry Heart'' (1924) * '' The Chorus Lady'' (1924) * ''

Enticement ''Enticement'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Mary Astor, Clive Brook, and Ian Keith. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Leonore Bewlay (Astor), recently grown into womanhood, wh ...

'' (1925) * ''

When the Door Opened ''When the Door Opened'' is a lost 1925 American silent Northern film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Jacqueline Logan, Walter McGrail, Margaret Livingston, Robert Cain, Frank Keenan, and Roy Laidlaw. It was written by Bradley Ki ...

'' (1925) * ''

The Gilded Butterfly ''The Gilded Butterfly'' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Alma Rubens, Bert Lytell, and Huntley Gordon. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Linda Haverhill is left penniless after th ...

'' (1926) * ''

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'' (1926) * '' Hell's Four Hundred'' (1926) * '' The Return of Peter Grimm'' (1926) * ''

The Lovelorn ''The Lovelorn'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Frederic Hatton and Bradley King. The film stars Sally O'Neil, Molly O'Day, Larry Kent, James Murray, and Charles Delaney. The film was relea ...

'' (1927) * ''

Under the Black Eagle ''Under the Black Eagle'' is a 1928 American silent World War I drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, written by Norman Houston, Bradley King, and Madeleine Ruthven, and starring Ralph Forbes, Marceline Day, Bert Roach, William Fairbanks, ...

'' (1928) * ''

Diamond Handcuffs ''Diamond Handcuffs'' is a 1928 American drama silent film directed by John P. McCarthy and written by Joseph Farnham, Willis Goldbeck and Bradley King. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Lawrence Gray, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee and Lena Malena. The ...

'' (1928) * '' Scarlet Seas'' (1929) * '' Drag'' (1929) * ''

Weary River ''Weary River'' is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and William Holden (no relation to William Holden, star of such films as ''Sunset Boulevard''). The ...

'' (1929) * ''

The Squall ''The Squall'' is a 1929 American sound ( All-Talking) pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce and Loretta Young, and based on the 1926 play '' The Squall'' by Jean Bart. Plot In Hu ...

'' (1929) * '' Young Nowheres'' (1929) * '' Drag'' (1929) * '' Dark Streets'' (1929) * ''

Son of the Gods A son is a male offspring; a boy or a man in relation to his parents. The female counterpart is a daughter. From a biological perspective, a son constitutes a first degree relative. Social issues In pre-industrial societies and some curren ...

'' (

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on J ...

) * ''

Wild Company ''Wild Company'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Leo McCarey and written by Bradley King. The film stars Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn, H. B. Warner, Richard Keene and Frances McCoy. The film was released on Jul ...

'' (1930) * '' The Way of All Men'' (1930) * '' The Lash'' (1930) * '' The Mask Falls'' (1931) * '' A Passport to Hell'' (1932) * ''

Six Hours to Live ''Six Hours to Live'' is a 1932 American pre-Code science fiction drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Warner Baxter, Miriam Jordan and John Boles. It is based on the story "Auf Weidersehen" by Gordon Morris and Morton Barteaux. ...

'' (1932) * ''

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'' (1933) * '' Let's Live Tonight'' (1935) * ''

Maid of Salem ''Maid of Salem'' is a 1937 American historical drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Harvey Stephens. It was made and distributed by Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures, Plot A young girl in Sal ...

'' (

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...

)

References

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