Frederica Sagor Maas
Frederica Sagor Maas ( born July 6, 1900 in New York City; † January 5, 2012 in La Mesa, California), born Frederica Alexandrina Sagor, was an American screenwriter.
Life
Sagor was born as the youngest daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York. At Columbia University, she devoted herself to the study of journalism and occasionally wrote articles for the New York Globe. Universal Studios hired her in 1923 as a story editor, and two years later her Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer gave a job as a scriptwriter.
She celebrated her first success in 1925: The film The Plastic Age helped the actress Clara Bow breakthrough. In the silent era, she worked regularly with stars such as Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Emil Jannings, Barbara Kent and not least Norma Shearer, to which they had a very close relationship.
Her latest screenplay, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, whose central theme is feminism in the late 19th century, was filmed in 1947. After some bitter disappointments, she retired from the film business.
In 1927, she married Ernest Maas, with whom she lived until his death in 1986. During the McCarthy era, both were interrogated by the FBI because they had subscribed to two communist publications.
99 years, she published her autobiography The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood. There Frederica Sagor Maas calculated mercilessly with Hollywood and the U.S. government.
Frederica Sagor Maas was shortly before her death among the 50 oldest known living person.