Faith Green

Faith Green
Born
Faith Emily Wheeler

Between June 8 and 30, 1869
British India
DiedJune 8, 1933; aged 63 or 64
Bronx, New York, U.S.
Other nameFaith Wheeler Green
OccupationsScreenwriter, journalist
SpouseFranklin D. Green

Faith Green (born Faith Emily Wheeler; June 1869 - June 8, 1933) was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era. She worked with directors like David Hartford, King Vidor, and Henry McRae.

Early life and career

Born Faith Emily Wheeler in British India, between June 8 and June 30, 1869, Green was the eldest of eight children born to Esther E. (née Sackett) and the Rev. Francis Marion Wheeler. Brought to the United States while still an infant by her parents, Faith, as the eldest, may well have been asked to provide substantial assistance in caring for her younger siblings. In any event, no reporting appears to have been done, either contemporaneous or retrospective, regarding the particulars of her schooling, much less any early portents of theatrical aspirations and their subsequent realization.

Green got her start as a journalist in New York City before turning to screenwriting; she also served as secretary of the New York Pen & Brush Club.

Mrs. Green resided in New York but also worked extensively in Canada. She was also valued due to her editing skills and knowledge of censor boards in the U.S. and Canada.

She spent time with Ralph Connor and adapted many of his novels for the big screen. At one point, she was in talks with Canada's Lady Byng of Vimy to adapt a story into a film, but this doesn't seem to have come to fruition.

Personal life and death

On June 15, 1892, Faith Wheeler became Mrs. Faith Wheeler Green, wife of architect Franklin A. Green. Within well under three years, the entire next generation of Greens had arrived, two daughters and one son.

On June 8, 1933, (having conceivably just turned 64, but undeniably destined to do so at some point that month), Green died, following a long illness, at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Predeceased by both her husband—in 1914—and, even before that, her daughter, Lucy, she was survived by her other two children, Mrs. Grace Farmhold and Guy Wheeler Green.

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. ↑ When they moved to New York, Green served as deputy architect of the New York City Board of Education.
  2. ↑ Although her obituary unambiguously and prominently displays 59 as her age at time of death, leading one to posit 1873 or '74 as the possible year of birth, this apparent concession to vanity is clearly outweighed by the relevant answers given by her parents' on the 1880 Census form (specifically, stating that Faith was then 10 years old—and thus, born in either 1869 or '70), and, better yet, by Green's own answer on the 1900 form, which allows her not only to specify both the month—June—and year—1869—of her birth, but to stipulate that, as of the date of that page's enumeration, she had not yet turned 31.
  3. ↑ This is merely the unfortunate but unavoidable inference to be drawn from Lucy Augusta's absence from the listed survivors in either of her parents' obituaries.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mrs. Faith Green". The New Rochelle Standard-Star. June 9, 1933. p. 2. Retrieved June 3, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Faith Green, playwright and motion picture scenario writer, who lived with her daughter, Mra. Grace Fromhold At 154 Neptune Avenue, died yesterday at Montifiore [sic] Hospital, Bronx, after a long illness. She was 59 years old. Born in British India, Mrs. Green was brought to the United States in infancy by her parents, the late Rev. And Mrs. Francis Wheeler. [...] Green was a member of the literary section of the Manor Club in Pelham and the Pen and Brush Club of New York City. She was the widow of the late Franklin D. Green, architect. Besides her daughter, A son, Guy Wheeler Green of Florida and two brothers and sisters, all in Tacoma, Wash., survive. Funeral Tomorrow. Funeral services will be held at the daughter's home, Saturday A1 2 P.M. with Mra. Ella Pomeroy of the Unity Society of Brooklyn, offciating. Interment will be in Clyde, N. Y.
  2. 1 2 Weygant, Charles A. The Sacketts of America: Their Ancestors and Descendants, 1630 - 1907. New Burgh, New York. 1907 p. 385.
  3. 1 2 3 "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSV1-YYP : Fri Apr 25 16:45:29 UTC 2025), Entry for Franklin A Green and Faith Green, 1900.
  4. ↑ "Social Affairs and Personal Items". The Calgary Herald. July 12, 1924. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ "I Saw It in the Tribune!". The Winnipeg Tribune. May 13, 1920. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Ottawa Production Man from Glengarry". The Ottawa Citizen. February 2, 1922. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Picture Writer to Give Counsel". The Ottawa Citizen. March 4, 1922. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  8. ↑ "May Film Barriers". The Vancouver Province. March 24, 1922. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Events of Society". The Tacoma Daily Ledger. June 19, 1892. p. 11. Retrieved June 3, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Faith E. Wheeler, daughter of Rev. Mr. Wheeler, pastor of the Fern Hill Methodist church, was married to F. A. Green, Wednesday evening at o'clock, the ceremony being performed by Bishop Thoburn. [...] The bridal journey was made to Victoria, the favorite resort for honeymoons.
  10. ↑ Van Pelt, John V. (March 1922). "The Combination Building — Church and School". Architecture. Vol. XLV, No. 3. p. 80. "It was in 1909 that I first came into close touch with this kind of problem. Mr. Franklin A. Green, deputy architect of the Board of Education of New York, was asked by successive parishes of the roman Catholic Church to undertake some of their buildings, and associated me with him in the enterprise"
  11. ↑ "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZZ7-RWB : Sat Oct 18 00:59:12 UTC 2025), Entry for Francis Wheeler and Esther E. Wheeler, 1880.
  12. ↑ "Franklin A. Green". The New York Times. May 1, 1914. p. 13. Retrieved June 3, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Franklin A. Green, Deputy Superintendent of School Buildings, Board of Education, at his home, 253 West 100th Street, Wednesday evening from an abscess of the brain which an operation had failed to relieve, after an illness of three weeks. [...] He left behind a wife, a son, and a daughter.
  13. ↑ "Daily Record of Deaths in Rochester Area: Mrs. Faith Green". The Times-Union. June 13, 1933. p. 23. Retrieved June 3, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Burial services for Mme. Faith Green, former Clyde resident, were conducted Monday in Mapie Grove. Mrs. Green died Thursday in New Rochelle. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Grace Farmhold of New Rochelle, and one son, Guy Green of Florida.

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