Edith Kennedy (1880-1963), often credited as Edith M. Kennedy, was an American writer and screenwriter active during the

silent era 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, wh ...

Biography

Beginnings

Edith May Kennedy was born in to Frederick Kennedy and Clara Lane in Auburn, New York. The family moved several times during Edith's childhood, eventually heading west and settling in Pasadena, California, where Edith began her career as a writer.

Career

Edith wrote short stories before turning her attentions to Hollywood. After moving to Pasadena in 1915, she began writing film scenarios and found her work in high demand. She penned dozens of scripts between 1917 and 1924 at Lasky Studios, working with directors like

George Melford George H. Melford (born George Henry Knauff, February 19, 1877 – April 25, 1961) was an American stage and film actor and director. Often taken for granted as a director today, the stalwart Melford's name by the 1920s was, like Cecil B. DeMil ...

and Walter Edwards and often writing for

Constance Talmadge Constance Alice Talmadge (April 19, 1898 – November 23, 1973) was an American silent film star. She was the sister of actresses Norma and Natalie Talmadge. Early life Talmadge was born on April 19, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York, to poor p ...

Personal life

She married New York–based composer Albert D. Jewett in 1921, and from there, went under contract at MGM. The pair later divorced. Her sister

Clara Genevieve Kennedy Clara Genevieve Kennedy was an American screenwriter and author active during Hollywood's silent era. She wrote most of her scripts for Paramount. Biography Clara was born in Monteagle, Tennessee, to Frederick Kennedy and Clara Lane. Her sist ...

also worked briefly as a scenario writer, penning eight scripts between 1918 and 1921. Edith died on November 8, 1963, in

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Filmography

* '' Pal o' Mine'' (1924) * '' Youth to Youth'' (1922) * '' Seeing's Believing'' (1922) * '' Glass Houses'' (1922) * '' Fourteenth Lover'' (1922) * '' Don't Call Me Little Girl'' (1921) * '' Her First Elopement'' (1920) * '' Oh, Lady, Lady'' (1920) * '' Food for Scandal'' (1920) * '' Crooked Streets'' (1920) * '' The Ladder of Lies'' (1920) * '' Young Mrs. Winthrop'' (1920) * ''

All of a Sudden Peggy ''All of a Sudden Peggy'' is a lost film, lost 1920 American silent comedy romance film directed by Walter Edwards (director), Walter Edwards and starring Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distribut ...

'' (1920) * '' His Official Fiancée'' (1919) * '' The Third Kiss'' (1919) * '' The Home Town Girl'' (1919) * ''

Rustling a Bride ''Rustling A Bride'' is a lost 1919 silent film comedy-Western directed by Irvin Willat and starring Lila Lee. Plot As described in a film magazine, cowboy Nick McCredie (Blue) discovers the name and address of a Kentucky girl on the fly leaf ...

'' (1919) * '' Romance and Arabella'' (1919) * '' Jane Goes a' Wooing'' (1919) * '' The Way of a Man with a Maid'' (1918) * '' Mirandy Smiles'' (1918) * '' Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots'' (1918) * ''

Her Country First ''Her Country First'' is a 1918 American comedy silent film directed by James Young and written by Edith Kennedy and Mary Roberts Rinehart. The film stars Vivian Martin, John Cossar, Florence Oberle, J. Parks Jones, Larry Steers, and Bernadi ...

'' (1918) * '' The Cruise of the Make-Believes'' (1918) * '' A Pair of Silk Stockings'' (1918) * ''

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'' (1918) * '' The Bravest Ways'' (1918) * '' The Fair Barbarian'' (1917) * '' Molly Entangled'' (1917) * ''

Bond of Fear ''Bond of Fear'' is a 1956 British 'B' crime drama film directed by Henry Cass and starring Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett, and John Colicos. The screenplay was by John Gilling and Norman Hudis. Premise John Sewell and his family are taken hosta ...

'' (1917) * '' Giving Becky a Chance'' (1917) * ''

The Marcellini Millions ''The Marcellini Millions'' is a 1917 American drama silent film directed by Donald Crisp and written by George Beban and Edith M. Kennedy. The film stars George Beban, Helen Jerome Eddy, Pietro Sosso, Henry Woodward, Fred Huntley and Mae Gaston ...

'' (1917)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kennedy, Edith American women screenwriters Screenwriters from New York (state) 1880 births People from Auburn, New York 1963 deaths 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters