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
Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Dead at 111: Wrote Movies for Norma Shearer (photo), Clara Bow, Louise Brooks Now, whether Frederica Sagor's Hollywood Babylon-like tales bear any resemblance to what actually happened at studio parties and private soirees, I can't tell. But on the professional side, one problem with the information found in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is that studios invariably used numerous writers, whether male or female, in their projects. Usually, in those pre-Writers Guild days, only two or three contributors received final credit, not because of the uncredited writer's gender but in large part because the final product oftentimes had little — if anything — in common with the original source. While doing research for my Ramon Novarro biography, I went through various drafts, written by various hands, of his movies. A Certain Young Man, for instance, went through so many changes (including director, cast, and title), that the final film...
- 1/7/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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