Elmer Blaney Harris
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Elmer Blaney Harris | |
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Chicago, Illinois | |
Died | September 6, 1966 | (aged 88)
Occupation | Author - Dramatist - Playwright |
Elmer Blaney Harris (January 11, 1878 – September 6, 1966) was an American author,
Biography
Harris was born in
When he returned to San Francisco, he became a newspaper reporter for the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, and lectured at clubs and universities on authors and playwrights, such as
Harris was married in 1908, and after his honeymoon he built a summer home in Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island, helping to establish a second artists' colony there. At Fortune Bridge he worked on his next three plays, The Offenders (1908), Trial Marriage (1909), and Thy Neighbor's Wife (1911). During this period, he divided his time between Fortune Bridge and New York City.
When
After the war he wrote his first screenplay, Lottery Man, in 1919. For the next twenty years he would be very prolific, collaborating on, directing, adapting, or supervising the production of almost 35 silent and "sound" films. He would live half the time in New York City, writing for the
His best known film was probably Johnny Belinda, released in 1948. He would base the story on the residents of the local area of his summer home in Fortune Bridge, and actual events that occurred there. The title character was based on Lydia Dingwell (1852–1931) of Dingwells Mills, Prince Edward Island.
Elmer Blaney Harris died at age 88 in Washington, D.C.
Partial filmography
- Pretty Mrs. Smith (1915)
- Help Wanted (1915)
- The Wild Olive (1915)
- Why Smith Left Home (1919)
- It Pays to Advertise (1919)
- An Adventure in Hearts (1919)
- Jack Straw(1920)
- Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920)
- The Sins of St. Anthony (1920)
- What Happened to Jones (1920)
- So Long Letty (1920)
- Miss Hobbs (1920)
- The Education of Elizabeth (1921)
- Ducks and Drakes (1921)
- All Soul's Eve (1921)
- Sham (1921)
- The March Hare (1921)
- The Speed Girl (1921)
- Her Own Money (1922)
- Her Gilded Cage (1922)
- Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
- Garrison's Finish (1923)
- No More Women (1924)
- The Girl on the Stairs (1925)
- Eve's Leaves (1926)
- Sunny Side Up (1926)
- That Certain Thing (1928)
- So This Is Love? (1928)
- The Matinee Idol (1928)
- Ransom (1928)
- A Woman's Way (1928)
- Court Martial (1928)
- The Spirit of Youth (1929)
- So Long Letty (1929)
- Stepping Out (1931)
- Young Sinners (1931)
- Skyscraper Souls (1932)
- The Barbarian (1933)
- Cross Country Cruise (1934)
- Looking for Trouble (1934)
- Red Salute (1935)
- The Three Wise Guys (1936)
- Johnny Belinda (1948)