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 Rider | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mary Kirk Rider November 20, 1876 Pekin, Illinois, USA |
| Other names | Mary Rider Mechtold |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, playwright, journalist |
| Years active | 1907–1923 |
| Spouse | Reuben Maynard |
Biography
editMary was born in Illinois to judge George Rider and his wife, Elizabeth Prettyman, in Pekin, Illinois. Later on, she attended 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 would go on to write a dozen or so shorts and features.
She married Reuben Maynard in New York City in 1916. The couple had no children.
Selected filmography
edit- Sunshine Alley (1917)
- Behind the Lines (1916)
- The Snowbird (1916)
- Gladiola (1915)
- The Way Back (1915)
- The Mountain Girl (1915) (short)
- Indiscretion (1915) (short)
- At the Stroke of the Angelus (1915) (short)
- Killed Against Orders (1915) (short)
- Ashes of the Past (1914) (short)
- The Temple of Moloch (1914) (short)
- The Old Derelict (1914) (short)
- The Mountain Rat (1914) (short)
References
edit- ^ Dramatic Mirror of the Stage and Motion Pictures. Dramatic Mirror Company. 1917.
- ^ "Bronxville Review-Press 3 November 1938 — HRVH Historical Newspapers". news.hrvh.org. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
- ^ "Women Playwrights and Authors". www.ahgp.org. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ ""Baby Doll," a Premiere, Next Week's Feature". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 4 Aug 1910. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ "The Story with Two Endings". The Washington Times. 23 May 1912. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ Rider, Mary (27 Nov 1914). "President of the Great Unwashed". The Monroe Journal. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ Metropolitan. Metropolitan magazine Company. 1914.
- ^ "25 Apr 1914, Page 8 - The Washington Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ "7 Nov 1917, 9 - The Anaconda Standard at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ "28 Aug 1914, Page 7 - Trenton Evening Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-10.