Zelda Sears - Фильмы

Зельда Сирс (née Paldi; 21 Января, 1873 — February 19, 1935) was an American stage актриса, screenwriter, novelist and businesswoman. Zelda had various odd jobs, including a writer for a Chicago newspaper, before днем an актриса и писатель. В Нью-Йорке she played комиксов roles есть этап, learned shorthand, and even opened her own typewriting бизнес. The impetus of her writing career occurred when she began to copy scientific articles for the noted, пластический хирург, Доктор William Bull. Сирс observed life in his sanitarium and turned what she saw into a fictional story, which she sold to a magazine. Readers became privy to the inner workings of the институт by reading Zelda's The Name Above The Door. Her income grew after several more short stories were accepted for publication. Dissatisfaction led Sears to return to Chicago, where she joined the acting труппы of John район northfield stapleton. Sears' stage career was boosted by her acting in a production of Lovers Lane. Other plays, in which she appeared were Women and Wine, Girls, The Blue Mouse, Love Among The Lions, The Girl He Couldn't Leave Behind Him, Keeping Up Appearances, The Nest Egg, Standing Pat, The Truth, The Show Shop, The Алая Женщина, и Откат. Playwrights began to trust her to add dialogue to her roles in stage productions. Сирс learned to write этап speeches and construct scenes. Over a period of eleven years she read more than one hundred plays. She embellished ten of these for production. As a writer she benefited greatly from her association with Clyde Fitch. Earlier he had cast her in Lovers Lane. Сирс пишет dialogue for theatrical shows like Lady Билли, Cornered, The Clinging Vine, and The Magic Ring. She came to Hollywood to be a scenarist для Сесил Б. де милля and MGM in the early 1930s. Sears co-пишет The Divorcee, a 1930 American Pre-Code драма, фильм, along with Nick Grindé и Джон Михан. She died, возраст 62, at her Hollywood home in 1935 and was survived by her second husband, Луи Wiswell, and a сестра, Мари Paldi. She had taken her professional name from her first husband, Herbert E. Sears.