Mary Rider
Mary Rider (sometimes credited as Mary Rider Mechtold or Mary Mechtold Rider) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and short story writer active primarily during the 1910s.
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Other names | Mary Rider Mechtold |
Occupation | Screenwriter, playwright, journalist |
Years active | 1907–1923 |
Biography
Rider went to the Chicago University.[1] She wrote plays[2] as well as short stories[3] during the 1910s that appeared in publications like Sunset[4], Metropolitan,[5] and Munsey's Magazine.[6] She also wrote for vaudeville before writing stories for the screen during Hollywood's silent era.[7]
One of her earliest stories to hit the screen was 1914's The Mountain Rat.[8] Over the next few years, she'd go on to write a dozen or so shorts and features. It's unknown what happened to her after 1923.
Selected filmography
- Sunshine Alley (1917)
- Behind the Lines (1916)
- The Snowbird (1916)
- Gladiola (1915)
- The Way Back (1915)
- The Mountain Girl (1915) (short)
- Indiscretion (1915) (short)
- At the Stroke of the Angelus (1915) (short)
- Killed Against Orders (1915) (short)
- Ashes of the Past (1914) (short)
- The Temple of Moloch (1914) (short)
- The Old Derelict (1914) (short)
- The Mountain Rat (1914) (short)
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References
- "Women Playwrights and Authors". www.ahgp.org. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- "4 Aug 1910, Page 14 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- "23 May 1912, Page 6 - The Washington Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- "27 Nov 1914, Page 3 - The Monroe Journal at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- Metropolitan. Metropolitan magazine Company. 1914.
- "25 Apr 1914, Page 8 - The Washington Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- "7 Nov 1917, 9 - The Anaconda Standard at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- "28 Aug 1914, Page 7 - Trenton Evening Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
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