Mary Rider | |
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Born | Mary Kirk Rider November 20, 1876 Pekin, Illinois, USA |
Other names | Mary Rider Mechtold |
Occupation | Screenwriter, playwright, journalist |
Years active | 1907–1923 |
Spouse(s) | Reuben Maynard |
Mary Rider (sometimes credited as Mary Rider Mechtold) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and short story writer active primarily during the 1910s. [1] [2]
Mary was born in Illinois to judge George Rider and his wife, Elizabeth Prettyman, in Pekin, Illinois. Later on, she'd attend the Chicago University. [3]
She began to write plays [4] as well as short stories [5] during the 1910s that appeared in publications like Sunset , [6] Metropolitan , [7] and Munsey's Magazine . [8] She also wrote for vaudeville before writing stories for the screen during Hollywood's silent era. [9] One of her earliest stories to hit the screen was 1914's The Mountain Rat . [10] Over the next few years, she'd go on to write a dozen or so shorts and features.
She married Reuben Maynard in New York City in 1916. The pair had no children.
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