Mary Alice Scully
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mary Alice Scully
| image = Mary Alice Scully - Aug 1925 EH.jpg
| caption = 1925 advertisement
| birth_name =
| birth_date = October 26, 1902
| birth_place = Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
| death_date = July 1, 1978 (aged 75)
| death_place = San Diego, California, USA
| occupation = Screenwriter
| spouse = Pierre Gendron (1928-1956)
}}
Mary Alice Scully (1902-1978) was an American screenwriter active during the 1920s.
Biography
Mary Alice was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Phillip Scully and Mary Ahearn. She attended Ten-Acre School and Dana Hall before going off to Wellesley; she left without a degree in order to take care of her sick mother.
The pair headed west to California for her mother's health, where Mary Alice studied shorthand, won typing awards, opened a public stenographer service, served as secretary to Christine Wetherill Stevenson, and eventually gained work at a film studio.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/158777724/?terms=%22mary+alice+scully%22|title=Sugar and Spice|last=|first=|date=12 Jul 1925|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-01-09}}
Eventually she got the chance to work on her own screenplays and adaptations; by 1925, she had sold four scripts to First National and six more to other studios.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380257394/?terms=%22mary+alice+scully%22|title=Authoress Arrives by Hard Study|last=|first=|date=7 Jun 1925|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-01-09}} She formed a collaboration with Arthur F. Statter, secretary of the Screen Writers Guild.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380521979/?terms=%22mary+alice+scully%22|title=Partners at Work on New Scenario|last=|first=|date=17 Jul 1924|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-01-09}}
In 1928, she married actor and screenwriter Pierre Gendron in Riverside, California.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/383074320/?terms=%22mary+alice+scully%22|title=Screen Writer Weds Broker|last=|first=|date=30 Sep 1928|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-01-09}} The pair had two children, Peter and Diane. She seems to have retired from filmmaking at this point.
Filmography
- The Mine with the Iron Door (1924)
- The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)
- One Way Street (1925)
- Stella Maris (1925)
- Brooding Eyes (1926)
- Whispering Canyon (1926)
- A Hero on Horseback (1927) (adaptation)
References
External links
{{commons category|Mary Alice Scully}}
- {{IMDb name|0780286}}
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Category:American women screenwriters
Category:Wellesley College alumni
Category:Screenwriters from Massachusetts