Madeline Matzen
Madeline Matzen (sometimes credited as M. Matzene) was a German-American screenwriter who worked in Hollywood on silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.
Madeline Matzen | |
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| Born | Madeline Hale Matzen October 27, 1889 Munich, Germany |
| Died | November 29, 1947 (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
Biography
Madeline was born in Munich, Germany, to Herman Matzen and Emma Hale. Her father was from Germany, and her mother was born in Ohio. Her mother died when she was young, and, she was raised in Ohio by her father and her stepmother. By the 1910s, she had moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actress. She and her sister, Dorothy, both ended up finding work at studios as scenarists, according to census records. Madeline wrote a string of films during the late 1910s through the late 1920s.[1][2][3][4]
Selected filmography
As writer:
- Bulldog Pluck (1927)
- The Fighting Hombre (1927)
- Heart o' the Hills (1919)
- In Wrong (1919)
- Burglar by Proxy (1919)
- Bill Apperson's Boy (1919)
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References
- Slide, Anthony (2012). "Abstract". Early Women Filmmakers: The Real Numbers. 24 (1): 114–121. doi:10.2979/filmhistory.24.1.114. JSTOR 10.2979/filmhistory.24.1.114.
- Dumont, Hervé (2009-01-21). Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic. McFarland. ISBN 9780786440986.
- Rubens, Alma (2015-03-21). Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird: Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 9781476616674.
- "Heart o' the Hills". Mary Pickford Foundation. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
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