Adrian Johnson (screenwriter)

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Adrian Owen Johnson (January 13, 1883 – September 14, 1964)

silent film era. Johnson wrote some of Fox Film's highest grossing films. More than a dozen starred Theda Bara.[2][3] His screenplay for Cleopatra depicted Antony and Cleopatra's love affair from the perspective of Hamarachi.[3]

He copyrighted and sold an Adrian Johnson Photoplay System that brought "the fascinating profitable profession of screen writing to the very door of the person of average intelligence." The course included 20 lessons and a dictionary of terms. It promised to "make failure impossible."[4]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997
  2. ISBN 9780786486106
    – via Google Books.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9781137074171
    – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "System". Shaw-Walker Company. April 19, 1920 – via Google Books.
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