Zelda Sears

Рождение : 1873-01-21, Near Brockway Township, Michigan, USA

Смерть : 1935-02-19

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zelda Sears (née Paldi; January 21, 1873 — February 19, 1935) was an American stage actress, screenwriter, novelist and businesswoman. Zelda had various odd jobs, including a writer for a Chicago newspaper, before becoming an actress and writer. In New York she played comic roles on stage, learned shorthand, and even opened her own typewriting business. The impetus of her writing career occurred when she began to copy scientific articles for the noted surgeon Dr. William Bull. Sears 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 institution 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 troupe of John 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 Scarlet Woman, and Undertow. Playwrights began to trust her to add dialogue to her roles in stage productions. Sears learned to write stage 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. Sears wrote dialogue for theatrical shows like Lady Billy, Cornered, The Clinging Vine, and The Magic Ring. She came to Hollywood to be a scenarist for Cecil B. DeMille and MGM in the early 1930s. Sears co-wrote The Divorcee, a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film, along with Nick Grindé and John Meehan. She died, age 62, at her Hollywood home in 1935 and was survived by her second husband, Louis Wiswell, and a sister, Marie Paldi. She had taken her professional name from her first husband, Herbert E. Sears.

Фильмы

A Wicked Woman
Gram Teague
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
A Wicked Woman
Screenplay
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
Оператор 13
Screenplay
Шпионка на службе у северян, Гэйл Лавлэсс, влюбляется в офицера армии Конфедерации. Сможет ли их любовь преодолеть разногласия целой страны, охваченной Гражданской войной, или же им не суждено быть вместе?
Сэди МакКи
Mrs. Craney
История простой девушки, дочери кухарки в богатом доме. Сын хозяина влюблен в нее, но ее сердце принадлежит парню, у которого еще ветер в голове. Защищая его, она портит отношения со всеми, даже со своей семьей. Вместе они убегают в большой город в поисках счастья, но парня снова подхватывает ветер соблазна, в образе второсортной певицы, и он убегает с ней на гастроли прямо в день свадьбы. Отчаявшись она не раздумывая выходит замуж за богатого человека. Казалось бы, все в жизни есть, богатый дом, положение в обществе, но сердцу не прикажешь, и она снова бросает все и разыскивает своего любимого, но вернуть все назад уже поздно…
This Side of Heaven
Adaptation
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
You Can't Buy Everything
Adaptation
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
Day of Reckoning
Screenplay
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
Beauty for Sale
Screenplay
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Tugboat Annie
Writer
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
Prosperity
Screenplay
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
Новая мораль для стариков
Additional Dialogue
У правильных родителей, которые относятся к своим взрослым детям как к подросткам, есть сын, который хочет поехать в Париж, чтобы изучать искусство, и дочь, влюбленная в женатого мужчину.
Эмма
Dialogue
После смерти жены Фредерик Смит может рассчитывать только на экономку Эмму Тэтчер, которая приняла на себя все обязанности по воспитанию четырёх маленьких детей Фредерика. Проходят годы – дети выросли, а отец семейства добивается значительного профессионального успеха и становится богатым человеком. Незадолго до смерти Фредерика Эмма выходит за него замуж. Согласно последней воле мужчины значительная часть наследства достаётся жене, что становится источником конфликта между Эммой и её приёмными детьми...
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Dialogue
Мать Хельги умерла при родах, поэтому девочка выросла в доме ее дальних родственников, где её никто не любил. Однажды ее поставили перед фактом, что скоро она выйдет замуж за выбранного родней жениха. Хельга, обдумав свое будущее, сбегает из дома и благодаря судьбе случайно встречает молодого инженера Родни Спенсера.Молодые и красивые, они мгновенно влюбляются друг в друга, и понимают, что созданы друг для друга, но вскоре Родни, нужно уехать по делам. Как только машина любимого скрылась за поворотом, на пороге его дома появились родственники Хельги. Девушку насильно возвращают домой, однако, вкусив свободной жизни, Хельга вновь убегает, и примыкает к бродячему цирку, где становится актрисой под псевдонимом Сюзанна Ленокс...
Politics
Story
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Reducing
Additional Dialogue
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Road to Paradise
Theatre Play
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
Развод
Treatment
Когда жена узнает о предательстве своего мужа, она решает отплатить ему той же монетой.
Развод
Hannah
Когда жена узнает о предательстве своего мужа, она решает отплатить ему той же монетой.
The Bishop Murder Case
Mrs. Otto Drukker
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
Devil-May-Care
Dialogue
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
The Wise Wife
Screenplay
John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him. His wife, Helen, a very domestic and conservative woman, invites Jenny Lou, a young southern girl, as her houseguest, and the girl flirts with John; she is conspicuously unsuccessful until she pretends to faint on the golf course and the unsuspecting victim finds her in his arms.
Rubber Tires
Adaptation
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
The Cruise of the Jasper B
Adaptation
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday - otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven (Mildred Harris) and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.
Corporal Kate
Story
Frequently cited as one of the first war films to feature the female angle, “Corporate Kate” is the story of a pair of Brooklyn manicurists who go to France during WWI to entertain the troops with a song-and-dance act. Both girls struggle not only with the brutalities of war but also with their love for the same man.
The Clinging Vine
Theatre Play
When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that no matter how she looks she’s still the smartest person in any room. 
Cornered
Theatre Play
A pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then place Mary there to make their heist easier. Unfortunately, Margaret returns before they've finished the job and gets shot. When the police get there, both women claim to be Margaret Waring and accuse the other of being the thief--and they look so much alike that no one can tell the difference.
The Highest Bidder
Mrs. Steese
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
The Truth
Mrs. Genevieve Crespigny
Becky Warder constantly indulges in the telling of little white lies. In an innocent effort to ease the troubled marriage of her quarreling friends Eve and Fred Lindon, Becky meets secretly with Fred, thereby constructing a web of deceit that leads Eve to suspect Becky of trifling with her husband's affections. Eve informs Becky's husband Tom of these meetings and Tom, suspicious, accuses his wife of infamy. ....