Ella Stuart Carson
American screenwriter (1800–??)
Ella Stuart Carson (born Cora Ella Carson ) was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's early silent days.
Biography
Ella was born in Hebron, Indiana , to James Carson and Mary Jane Stuart. She attended the Indiana University intent on becoming a teacher, but afterward, she embarked on a career as a newspaperwoman, working at The Chicago Tribune and The Albuquerque Journal .
By the mid-1910s, she and her husband, R. Cecil Smith , got work writing scripts at Thomas H. Ince 's studio. The pair—who reportedly wrote over 100 screenplays together—filed a trademark in 1920 to have the rest of their screenplays jointly credited to "the R. Cecil Smiths."
References
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↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions . U.S. Government Printing Office. 1921.
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