Marie Layet
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Marie Layet
| birth_name = Marie Tilney Layet
| birth_date = April 3, 1885
| birth_place = Mobile, Alabama, USA
| death_date = April 1937 (aged 52)
| death_place = Apalachicola, Florida, USA
| other_names = Marie Stanley
| education =
| occupation = Screenwriter, author
| spouse = Stanley Sheip
| relatives =
}}
Marie Layet (who often wrote under the pen name Marie Stanley) was an American screenwriter and novelist known for her work during Hollywood's silent era.
Biography
Marie was born in Mobile, Alabama, to George Layet and his wife Josephine Garner.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/274612783/?terms=%22george+layet%22|title=19 Dec 1882, 2 - The Montgomery Advertiser at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}} Her parents were reportedly respected and well-known, but she was orphaned at a young age, and was raised primarily by her grandmother.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/262124883/?terms=%22george+layet%22|title=25 Nov 1888, 2 - The Montgomery Advertiser at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2009/12/southern_bound_gulf_stream_an.html|title=Southern Bound: 'Gulf Stream' an unjustly forgotten tale|last=Sledge|first=John|website=AL.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-20}} After her grandmother died, she studied art in New Jersey and Ohio.
At the age of 24, she returned to Mobile and opened her own art studio, and she wrote silent films in order to pay her bills after answering an advertisement.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVldXcyTPoQC&q=%22marie+stanley%22+%22gulf+stream%22&pg=PR4|title=Gulf Stream|last=Stanley|first=Marie|date=1993|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=9780817306953|language=en}} Her earliest known effort was on 1913's The Clown's Daughter. She'd go on to write at least a half-dozen more films before marrying prominent lumberman Stanley Sheip in 1917.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9DyukKT9FesC&q=%22marie+layet%22&pg=PT54|title=Apalachicola|last=Mount-Douds|first=Beverly|date=2009-11-02|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781439622872|language=en}} After her marriage, she turned her attention to the local theater scene, co-founding the Mobile Little Theatre and working on stage plays. Her novel Gulf Stream was published to a mix of acclaim and controversy in 1930.
In 1937, reeling from her publisher rejecting her second novel (Penhazard) and dealing with the effects of long-term alcoholism, she died at her home in Florida. She was survived by her husband; the pair had no children.{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2491|title=Marie Layet Sheip (Marie Stanley)|website=Encyclopedia of Alabama|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/244785235/?terms=%22marie+sheip%22|title=12 Apr 1937, Page 8 - Tallahassee Democrat at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}
Selected filmography
- The Poet of the Peaks (1915)
- Heart of Flame (1915)
- Sir Galahad of Twilight (1914)
- A Soul Astray (1914){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GwoAAAAYAAJ&q=%22marie+layet%22&pg=PA280|title=Catalogue of Copyright Entries ...: Works of arts, etc. New series|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|date=1914|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}
- The Peacock Feather Fan (1914)
- The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet (1914){{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/69811213/?terms=%22marie+layet%22|title=5 Feb 1915, Page 8 - Belvidere Daily Republican at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}
- The Clown's Daughter (1913){{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/358994603/?terms=%22marie+layet%22|title=27 Sep 1913, 5 - Austin American-Statesman at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}
References
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Category:Screenwriters from Alabama
Category:American women screenwriters
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:Novelists from Alabama
Category:Writers from Mobile, Alabama
Category:Pseudonymous women writers
Category:20th-century American women writers