Anna Violet Clark (1896-1974) was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era.
Biography
The youngest of four children born to A.W. Clark and Anna Taggert in Omaha, Nebraska, Violet attended
Mills College
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in Oakland, California, and then graduated from the University of Chicago. She started off her professional career as a journalist at newspapers in the Midwest.
She soon began writing scenarios; the first one she sold was for 1919's ''
Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie'', directed by
Tod Browning
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. In 1920, Clark came to Los Angeles to accept a position as a scenario writer for
Thomas H. Ince. She'd also write a number of stories for actress
Katherine McDonald and
B. P. Shulberg at
First National, as well as
Samuel Goldwyn
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.
She married Los Angeles–based commercial artist Robert Freeman in 1922, and the pair spent a year in London, during which she wrote pictures for British studios. After the birth of their two sons, the pair spent four years in Europe, at which point Violet returned to her position at Paramount, but she's not credited with any other films after this period.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Girl from Gay Paree'' (1927)
* ''
The Splendid Crime'' (1925)
* ''
Not So Long Ago'' (1925)
* ''
Grounds for Divorce
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'' (1925)
* ''
A Self-Made Failure'' (1924)
* ''
Slander the Woman'' (1923)
* ''
Bell Boy 13'' (1923)
* ''
The Woman Conquers'' (1922)
* ''
Domestic Relations
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* divorce;
* property settlements;
* alimony, spousal support, or other maintenance;
* the establishment of Paternity (law), paternity;
* the establ ...
'' (1922)
* ''
The Foolish Age
''The Foolish Age'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Doris May, Hallam Cooley and Otis Harlan.Munden p.259
Plot
Cast
* Doris May as Margie Carr
* Hallam Cooley as Homer Dean Chadwick
* Otis Ha ...
'' (1921)
* ''
The Truth About Husbands'' (1921)
* ''
The Devil's Garden'' (1920)
* ''
Wings of Pride'' (1920)
* ''
Madonnas and Men'' (1920)
* ''
A Woman's Business'' (1920)
* ''
Locked Lips'' (1920)
* ''
Love Without Question'' (1920)
* ''
The Red Lane'' (1919)
* ''
The Pointing Finger'' (1919)
* ''
Loot'' (1919)
* ''
Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie'' (1919)
References
1896 births
1978 deaths
American women screenwriters
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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