Violet Clark

{{Infobox person

| name = Violet Clark

| birth_name = Anna Violet Clark

| birth_date = May 13, 1896

| birth_place = Omaha, Nebraska, USA

| death_date = October 23, 1974 (aged 78)

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA

| occupation = Screenwriter

| spouse =

}}

Anna Violet Clark (1896-1974) was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era.

Biography

The youngest of four children born to A.W. Clark and Anna Taggert in Omaha, Nebraska, Violet attended Mills College in Oakland, California, and then graduated from the University of Chicago.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/96392416/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=16 Apr 1922, Page 68 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}{{Cite journal|date=1919|title=Scenario Writers and Editors|url=https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2160/32189_1220702381_0015-00288?pid=6045&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3Dilm11077%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26db%3Dmotionpicstudiodir%26gsfn%3DViolet%26gsln%3DClark%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26redir%3Dfalse%26uidh%3Dhhp%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D37%26fh%3D0%26h%3D6045%26recoff%3D3%25204%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=ilm11077&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true|journal=Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual|pages=286|via=Ancestry.com}} She started off her professional career as a journalist at newspapers in the Midwest.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/127141589/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=29 Jan 1922, Page 58 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380280474/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=14 May 1922, 29 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}

She soon began writing scenarios; the first one she sold was for 1919's Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie, directed by Tod Browning. In 1920, Clark came to Los Angeles to accept a position as a scenario writer for Thomas H. Ince.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380546117/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=26 Aug 1920, 30 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}} She'd also write a number of stories for actress Katherine McDonald and B. P. Shulberg at First National, as well as Samuel Goldwyn.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/127141589/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=29 Jan 1922, Page 58 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/82529309/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=19 Mar 1922, Page 20 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}

She married Los Angeles–based commercial artist Robert Freeman in 1922, and the pair spent a year in London, during which she wrote pictures for British studios.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/410460390/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=2 Dec 1922, 17 - Daily News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380490660/?terms=%22violet+clark%22|title=24 Aug 1923, 27 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}} After the birth of their two sons, the pair spent four years in Europe, at which point Violet returned to her position at Paramount, but she's not credited with any other films after this period.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380466374/?terms=%22violet+clark+freeman%22|title=28 Sep 1932, 7 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-11}}

Selected filmography

References

Category:1896 births

Category:1978 deaths

Category:American women screenwriters

Category:20th-century American women writers

Category:20th-century American screenwriters