Harry Chapman Ford was a

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and novelist in the United States. Two of his plays and one of his novels were adapted to film.

Early life

Henry Chapman Ford was born in

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. His mother was actress Blanche Chapman. His father was Henry Clay Ford, owner of

Ford's Theatre Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863. The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where ...

. He had two brothers, Frank A. and George D.

Career

Two of Ford's plays and one of his books were made into films. He was a stage director for theaters, and toured internationally with the theater adaptation of '' The Garden of Allah''. He directed

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Later life and death

Ford never married. He died in May 1938 at his home in

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of a

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, outlived by his two brothers and mother.

Theater

*''Anna Ascends'' (1920) *''Eve's Leaves'' (1925) *''Ebb Tide'' (1931)

Filmography

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Anna Ascends ''Anna Ascends'' is a 1922 American silent romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and based on the 1920 play of the same title by Harry Chapman Ford. Alice Brady reprises her starring role from the Broadway play. The film is largely ...

'' (1922) *''

Eve's Leaves ''Eve's Leaves'' is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film starring Leatrice Joy and William Boyd. The film was produced and distributed by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Paul Sloane

'' (1926) adapted by Paul Sloane from Ford's 1925 play of the same name *''

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'' (1926) adapted by Leah Baird and Grover Jones from Ford's novel ''Two Gates''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, Harry Chapman Year of birth missing Year of death missing 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers American male dramatists and playwrights American male novelists Writers from Rutherford, New Jersey Writers from Baltimore Deaths from coronary thrombosis Novelists from New Jersey Novelists from Maryland