Mary Alice Scully | |
|---|---|
 1925 advertisement | |
| Born | October 26, 1902 Lowell, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | July 1, 1978 (aged 75) San Diego, California, USA |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Spouse | Pierre Gendron (1928-1956) |
Mary Alice Scully (1902-1978) was an American screenwriter active during the 1920s.
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. [1]
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. [2] She formed a collaboration with Arthur F. Statter, secretary of the Screen Writers Guild. [3]
In 1928, she married actor and screenwriter Pierre Gendron in Riverside, California. [4] The pair had two children, Peter and Diane. She seems to have retired from filmmaking at this point.
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