Jean Bart (writer)

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| birth_name = Marie Antoinette Vilardell

| birth_date = c.1876

| birth_place = France

| death_date = March 6, 1955

| death_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S.

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| nationality = French (1876)
US (1900)

| occupation = Scenarist and playwright

| years_active = 1915 - 1945

| known_for = The Squall

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| other_names = Marie Sarlabous, Marie de Sarlabous

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| {{marriage|Emile Joseph Sarlabous|1900|1931|his death}}

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| children = 1

| relatives = Joseph Fields (son-in-law)

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Jean Bart (c.1876 – 1955; pseudonym of Marie Antoinette Sarlabous) was a French-born American playwright and screenwriter. She began writing silent film scenarios under her married name in 1915, but after America entered the Great War she adopted as a pen name that of the French naval hero, Jean Bart. Her greatest success came with the long-running Broadway melodrama, The Squall (1926). She had two other plays produced on Broadway by 1932, and continued writing scenarios and screenplays up through 1945.

Biography

As Marie Antoinette Vilardell, she was born in France sometime during 1876 or 1877.Marie Vilardell in the New York, U.S., Arriving passenger and crew lists, 1820-1957, retrieved from Ancestry.com According to multiple US Census returns, her father was born in Spain and her mother in Belgium, while her first language was French.1910 United States Federal Census for Marie Sarlabous, New York > New York > Manhattan Ward 16 > District 0842, retrieved from Ancestry.com1920 United States Federal Census for Marie Sarlabous, New York > New York > Manhattan Assembly District 7 > District 0566, retrieved from Ancestry.com1930 United States Federal Census for Marie Sarlabous, New York > New York > Manhattan Districts (251-500) > District 0462, retrieved from Ancestry.com She was fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian, besides her native French.{{cite news |title=Lakewood Notes |work=Morning Sentinel |date=August 13, 1926 |location=Waterville, Maine |page=9 |via = Newspapers.com}}

She married Dr. Emile Joseph SarlabousHis first name is often given in various forms: Emil, Emile, and Emilio. on June 14, 1900, at the St. Peter's Episcopal Church in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.Marie Antoinette Vilardell in the New York, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of New York Church Records, 1767-1970, retrieved from Ancestry.com Sarlabous was from Cuba, the son of the French Consul General there and a Cuban woman. He came to the United States for training as a doctor, gaining his M.D. from New York University in 1883.{{cite news |title=Dr. Emilio Sarlabous, Long Ill, Dies At 62 |work=The New York Times |date=June 14, 1931 |location=New York, New York |page=28 |via = NYTimes.com}} He became a naturalized US citizen in 1884.U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes (1791-1992) for Emile J. Sarlabous, retrieved from Ancestry.com The marriage, under the then prevailing concept of coverture, automatically granted her the legal standing of her husband, and so she become a naturalized US citizen. The couple had one child, Germaine Emilie Sarlabous, born in Manhattan, who married Joseph Fields.

She died March 6, 1955, in New York City, with The New York Times obituary giving only her stage name and citing her age as 75.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Jean Bart |work=The New York Times |date=March 8, 1955 |location=New York, New York |page=27 |via = NYTimes.com}}

Works

=As Maria de Sarlabous=

The Sin of Napoleon (1915 scenario) with Andreas de Segurola for Mirror Films, Inc.{{cite news |title=News of the Movies |work=Des Moines Tribune |date=December 20, 1915 |location=Des Moines, Iowa |page=8 |via = Newspapers.com}}
A Prince in a Pawnshop (1916 scenario) with Andreas de Segurola for Greater Vitagraph.{{cite news |title=Big Bernard Film Is Poli Feature |work=The Tribune |date=October 16, 1916 |location=Scranton, Pennsylvania |page=10 |via = Newspapers.com}}
Grandma Knew Best (1918 operetta book) with music by Gabrielle Sibella.{{cite news |title=Will Offer Mozart In Miniature Form |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=September 15, 1918 |location=San Francisco, California |page=2 |via = Newspapers.com}}

=As Jean Bart=

The Flaming Omen (1917 film)
The Squall (1926 play; film version 1929)
Man Who Reclaimed His Head (play; film version 1934)
Verbena trágica aka Tragic Festival (1939 film)
The Mad Empress (1939 film)
Strange Confession (1945 film)

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{{IMDb name|id=0058365|name=Jean Bart}}

Category:American dramatists and playwrights

Category:19th-century births

Category:1955 deaths

Category:20th-century American screenwriters