Faith Thomas (screenwriter)
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Faith Thomas
| image = Faith Thomas - Aug 1927 Variety.jpg
| caption = From a 1927 advertisement
| birth_name = Faith Helen Thomas
| birth_date = April 24, 1902
| birth_place = Superior, Wisconsin, USA
| death_date = August 7, 1982 (aged 80)
| death_place = West Hollywood, California, USA
| occupation = Screenwriter
| spouse =
| relatives =
}}
Faith Thomas (1902-1982) was an American screenwriter active during the 1920s through the 1940s.
Biography
Faith was born in Superior, Wisconsin, to Benjamin Thomas and Matilda Koehler. After her schooling, she became a stenographer and a court reporter in her home state.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380210310/?terms=%22faith+thomas%22|title=9 Nov 1923, 27 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}} By the early 1920s, she had relocated to Hollywood, where after working as a stenographer she eventually began writing screenplays for Universal Pictures.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380529203/?terms=%22faith+thomas%22+scenarist|title=16 Jun 1927, 25 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/457741884/?terms=%22faith+thomas%22+scenario|title=19 Jun 1928, 13 - The San Francisco Examiner at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}} She was on staff at Universal early as 1924 (when she was noted as the person in charge of production on Where the Worst Begins), although she did not get her first credit until 1928's That's My Daddy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380521979/?terms=%22faith+thomas%22+scenario|title=17 Jul 1924, 27 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
Selected filmography
- That's My Daddy (1928){{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/528005873/?terms=%22faith+thomas%22+scenario|title=27 Apr 1928, 2 - The Independent-Record at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- Red Hot Speed (1928){{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/373482770/?terms=%22faith+thomas%22+scenarist|title=7 Apr 1929, 57 - The Baltimore Sun at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- Silks and Saddles (1929)
- The Big Bluff (1933)
- I Can't Escape (1934)
- Hollywood Boulevard (1936){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XW9hAAAAQBAJ&q=%22faith+thomas%22+screenplay&pg=PT81|title=A Palace of Silver|last=Sanford|first=John|date=2013-09-12|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781448213269|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9eODQAAQBAJ&q=%22faith+thomas%22+screenplay&pg=PA461|title=What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting|last=Norman|first=Marc|date=2008|publisher=Three Rivers Press|isbn=9780307393883|language=en}}
- Conspiracy (1939){{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/385564502/?terms=%22faith+thomas%22|title=12 Apr 1939, 37 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- Rock River Renegades (1942)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0858817}}
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Category:American women screenwriters
Category:Screenwriters from Wisconsin
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:20th-century American screenwriters
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