Elizabeth Mahoney

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Elizabeth Mahoney
BornNovember 1879
Died??
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OccupationScreenwriter

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Mahoney was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era. She also was in charge of continuity in a number of other films during her time in the industry. [1] She worked primarily at the American Film Company (based in Santa Barbara, California) and Essanay, frequently collaborating with screenwriter June Mathis as well as director Lloyd Ingraham. [2]

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Biography

Mahoney was born to Daniel Mahoney and Ellen Kane in Elma, Iowa, where she grew up on a farm; she also spent time in Chicago. [3] By the early 1910s, she had moved to Hollywood, where she worked as a stenographer before breaking into the film industry as a screenwriter. [4] Her first known screenwriting assignment involved adapting Charles Thomas Dazey's story into the 1917 silent drama Peggy Leads the Way , directed by Ingraham and shot on location at Ben Lomond near Santa Cruz, California. [5] She continued writing through around 1920, at which point she was residing in Hollywood. Little is known of what happened to her after that date.

Selected works

Screenplays:

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