Silent film screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas has passed away at the age of 111.
She died of natural causes in La Mesa, California on Thursday.
Maas contributed to over 15 movies between 1925 and 1928, among them The Plastic Age, Rolled Stockings, The First Night, Flesh and the Devil and It, which starred Clara Bow.
She was born in New York City to Russian immigrants in 1900 and later attended Columbia University before landing a job with Universal Pictures as an assistant story writer.
She married fellow screenwriter Ernest Maas in 1927 and, at the time of her death, she was the 44th oldest verified person in the world.
She died of natural causes in La Mesa, California on Thursday.
Maas contributed to over 15 movies between 1925 and 1928, among them The Plastic Age, Rolled Stockings, The First Night, Flesh and the Devil and It, which starred Clara Bow.
She was born in New York City to Russian immigrants in 1900 and later attended Columbia University before landing a job with Universal Pictures as an assistant story writer.
She married fellow screenwriter Ernest Maas in 1927 and, at the time of her death, she was the 44th oldest verified person in the world.
- 1/16/2012
- WENN
"Frederica Sagor Maas, a pioneering female screenwriter who scored her first big success with The Plastic Age, a smash hit for 'It Girl' Clara Bow in 1925, died Jan 5." She was 111. Mike Barnes in the Hollywood Reporter: "Because she was a woman, Maas was typically assigned work on flapper comedies and light dramas. Her efforts includes such other Bow films as Dance Madness (1926), Hula (1927) and Red Hair (1928); two films featuring Norma Shearer, His Secretary (1925) and The Waning Sex (1926); the Greta Garbo drama Flesh and the Devil (1926); and the Louise Brooks film Rolled Stockings (1927)…. In 1927, she married Ernest Maas, a producer at Fox, and they wrote as a team but struggled to sell scripts…. The pair, interrogated by the FBI for allegedly Communist activities, were out of the business by the early 1950s. Ernest Mass died in 1986 at age 94. In 1999, at the urging of film historian Kevin Brownlow, Maas published her autobiography,...
- 1/8/2012
- MUBI
Frederica Sagor Maas, who wrote screenplays for silent era stars including Clara Bow, has died. She was 111.
The pioneering screenwriter passed away of natural causes on Thursday. She was the third oldest person in California.
She began her Hollywood career aged 23 and racked up credits for silent films including Flesh and the Devil with Greta Garbo, Dance Madness, His Secretary and The Waning Sex.
Maas also penned the screenplay for 1925's The Plastic Age, acknowledged as the movie which launched Bow's career.
She married Ernest Maas, her writing partner, in the late 1920s but they struggled to sell their scripts in Hollywood after they were wrongly branded communists and blacklisted by industry executives. Ernest died in 1986.
The pioneering screenwriter passed away of natural causes on Thursday. She was the third oldest person in California.
She began her Hollywood career aged 23 and racked up credits for silent films including Flesh and the Devil with Greta Garbo, Dance Madness, His Secretary and The Waning Sex.
Maas also penned the screenplay for 1925's The Plastic Age, acknowledged as the movie which launched Bow's career.
She married Ernest Maas, her writing partner, in the late 1920s but they struggled to sell their scripts in Hollywood after they were wrongly branded communists and blacklisted by industry executives. Ernest died in 1986.
- 1/8/2012
- WENN
Frederica Sagor Pt.2: Women Screenwriters in 1920s Hollywood [Photo: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh.] Frederica Sagor's reported final Hollywood screen credit was the scenario for the 1928 slapstick comedy The Farmer's Daughter, directed by Arthur Rosson at Fox. Marjorie Beebe, previously featured in several comedy shorts, had the title role (no relation to Loretta Young's 1947 Oscar-winning Congresswoman-to-be). In her book, Sagor says she was paid $750 a week (approx. $9,700 today) to write the story for this programmer — one she hated — about rural lovers and piles of manure. The previous year, Sagor had married screenwriter Ernest Maas, who held an executive post at Fox. In her autobiography, she states that the couple wrote a story named Beefsteak Joe, inspired by the life of Maas' father, that was misappropriated by Paramount and released as The Way of All Flesh. Directed by Gone with the Wind's Victor Fleming, the now-lost melodrama — Madame X meets Stella Dallas in...
- 1/7/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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