Gardner Hunting
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
Gardner Hunting (1872 - 1958) was an American editor, screenwriter, and author.{{Cite web |date=1920-06-03 |title=The Ithaca Journal from Ithaca, New York |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/254297894/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}} He edited People's Magazine.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bO6JDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57|title=This Fiction Business|first=H.|last=Bedford-Jones|date=June 22, 1929|publisher=Lulu.com|via=Google Books|isbn=9780359439157}} From Michigan, he wrote Vicarion and other stories.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NH0iAQAAIAAJ&q=%22gardner+hunting%22 |title = Michigan Library Bulletin|last1 = Library|first1 = Michigan State|year = 1927}} In 1916, he contracted with Wharton Incorporated to be in charge of their film scenarios.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saMbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22gardner+hunting%22&pg=PA56|title=The Moving Picture World|date=June 22, 1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|via=Google Books}} In 1920, he formed the independent film production company Cayuga Pictures with partner James N. Naulty, through which they made If Women Only Knew (1920) and Scrambled Wives (1921).{{Cite web |date=1920-10-31 |title=The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/654422004/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last=Wid's Films and Film Folk |first=Inc |url=https://archive.org/details/widsyearbook192000wids |title=Wid's Year Book : 1920 |date=1920 |publisher=New York : Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. |others=Media History Digital Library}}
Their Friendly Enemy is set in Pentwater, Michigan and is about two high school graduates who buy the local newspaper and become its editors.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UO9yB5qHfoUC&q=%22gardner+hunting%22&pg=PA147|title=Michigan in the Novel, 1816-1996: An Annotated Bibliography|first=Robert|last=Beasecker|date=June 22, 1998|publisher=Wayne State University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=0814327125}}
Bibliography
- A Hand in the Game 1911{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/handingame00huntiala|quote=gardner hunting.|title=A Hand in the Game|first=Henry Gardner|last=Hunting|date=June 22, 1911|publisher=Henry Holt|via=Internet Archive}} Henry Holt and Company, New York 1911, also by Quinn & Boden Company. Illustrated by J. N. Marchand
- Touchdown-and after, Macmillan, New York, 1920
- The Vicarion, 1926{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3XunMr9D2k4C&q=%22gardner+hunting%22&pg=PT341|title=The Light of Other Days: A Novel of the Transformation of Humanity|first1=Arthur C.|last1=Clarke|first2=Stephen|last2=Baxter|date=January 11, 2010|publisher=Tom Doherty Associates|via=Google Books|isbn=9781429959629}}
- Barry Dare and the mysterious box, A. L. Burt company, New York c. 1929
- Working with God: Awakening the Genii Within Your Mind, Unity School of Christianity, Kansas City, 1947{{dubious|date=July 2019}}(pa{{Cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Hunting,+Gardner,+1872-1958|title=Gardner Hunting (Hunting, Gardner, 1872-1958) | The Online Books Page|website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}
Selected filmography
- Redeeming Love (film) (1916)
- The Scarlet Oath (1916)
- Husband and Wife (1916)
- Johnny Get Your Gun (1919) written by Lawrence Burke and Gardner Hunting
- If Women Only Knew (1920)
- Scrambled Wives (1921)
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Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:American male screenwriters