Catherine Carr (screenwriter)
Catherine Carr | |
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Born | Catherine Davis Woodridge January 1, 1880 Austin, Texas, USA |
Died | January 18, 1941 Los Angeles, California, USA |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Catherine Carr (January 1, 1880 – January 18, 1941) was a silent-film era screenwriter with at least 28 films to her credit.
Biography[]
Catherine, daughter of Absalom and Ida Woodridge, was born in Austin, Texas. She was educated in Washington, D.C., where she met her husband, John Gillis Carr, and began her career as a writer of short stories.[1] Her husband died soon after she gave birth to their two sons.
She began her career writing scenarios before rising to the rank of head of the scenario department at Kinetophone.[2] She wrote a number of films for Vitagraph over the course of her years in the industry.
Filmography[]
- The Temple of Venus (1923)
- (1921)
- The Forgotten Woman (1921)
- The Corsican Brothers (1920)
- (1919)
- (1919)
- Prudence on Broadway (1919)
- (UK title Her Buckskin Knight) (1919)
- Shifting Sands (1918)
- (1918)
- The Ghost Flower (1918)
- (1918)
- I Love You (1918)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- (1918)
- The Secret Code (1918)
- Station Content (1918)
- (1918)
- The Regenerates (1917)
- A Huntress of Men (1916)
- (1916)
- (1916)
- The Melting Pot (1915)
- (1915)
- (1914)
- (1914)
- (1914)
References[]
- ^ "Scenario Writers and Editors". Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual: 285. 1921 – via Ancestry.com.
- ^ "19 Dec 1914, Page 8 - The Seattle Star at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
External links[]
- Catherine Carr (I) at IMDb at the Internet Movie Database
- Catherine Carr at the American Film Institute
Categories:
- Screenwriters from Texas
- Writers from Austin, Texas
- 1880 births
- 1941 deaths
- American women screenwriters
- Silent film screenwriters
- People from Austin, Texas
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- American screenwriter stubs