Jeanie MacPherson

Screenwriter

Female

Born May 18, 1887

Hometown Boston, Massachus...

Died Aug 26, 1946

Death Place Los Angeles, Cali...

Jeanie MacPherson was a silent film actress from 1908 to 1917 and a film screenwriter through the 1940s. Jeanie MacPherson was educated in Paris and in Chicago and studied dancing from Theodore Kosloff. Her onstage experience started when she went to… Read More

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Cecil B. DeMille
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Critic's Choice; New Dvd's
NYTimes - Oct 09, 2007

TREASURES III Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934 American movies didn't wait for Angelina Jolie and Michael Moore to develop a social conscience. One of the sobering lessons of the new anthology from the National Film Preservation Foundation, ''Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934,'' is that the pictures of the early 20th
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Movie Guide
NYTimes - Feb 06, 1998

Here is a selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy movies and film series playing this weekend in New York City. * denotes a highly recommended film or series. Ratings and running times are in parentheses. An index of reviews of films opening today appears on page 7. Now Playing ''AMISTAD,'' starring Djimon Hounsou, Anthony
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'Cleopatra' And A De Mille Profile
NYTimes - Aug 26, 1983

CHANNEL 13 has a happy idea for programming tonight: at 9, show a one-hour documentary about Cecil B. De Mille; at 10, show ''Cleopatra,'' not the latter-day presentation with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, of course, but the 1934 version, the one in which De Mille directed Claudette Colbert, a cast of thousands and an asp. Even on a
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Cecil B. De Mille's 'Madam Satan'
NYTimes - Sep 26, 1982

In his review in The New York Times Oct. 6, 1930, Mordaunt Hall, then the film critic, wrote, ''Cecil B. De Mille's latest audible film, 'Madam Satan,' is a strange conglomeration of unreal incidents that are set forth with no little technical skill.'' Mr. Hall was absolutely right. I'm afraid that the main reason it has been chosen as one of the
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CHILDHOOD

1887 Birth Born on May 18, 1887.

TWENTIES

1908 21 Years Old Jeanie MacPherson was educated in Paris and in Chicago and studied dancing from Theodore Kosloff. Her onstage experience started when she went to Chicago Musical College. In 1908, she made her screen debut in the D.W. Griffith directed dramatic short entitled The Factual Hour and would become a popular actress through the 1910s, appearing alongside such notable actors as Wallace Reid, Geraldine Farrar, Blanche Sweet and Wilfred Lucas before retiring from acting in 1917 and concentrating on a writing career within the film industry.

FORTIES

1927 40 Years Old As a screenwriter, MacPherson was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which was created on May 11, 1927 in Hollywood, California. … Read More

FIFTIES

1946 59 Years Old MacPherson died of cancer in 1946, aged 59, and was interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. … Read More

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