Jane Murfin
Jane Murfin ( born October 27, 1884 in Quincy, Michigan; † August 10, 1955 in Brentwood, California ) was an American scriptwriter and screenwriter.
Biography
Jane Murfin began as a writer of plays, which they often co-authored with actress Jane Cowl. The greatest successes of the two were the romance Lilac Time, which brought it in 1917 to 176 performances and Smilin 'Through, which the two women published in 1919 under the pseudonym Allan Langdon Martin. Both pieces were filmed several times successfully. After she had already written the end of the 1910s first screenplays for the film, was Jane Murfin 1920 as a screenwriter in Hollywood and made it quickly to the highly paid specialists of melodrama and romantic women's lives to be. In the period 1929-1935 she was most active, and responsible for many films of the female stars Ann Harding, Irene Dunne, Constance Bennett and Katharine Hepburn for the film company RKO. After switching to MGM, she wrote, among other things on the scripts for The Women and Pride and Prejudice. 1924 Jane Murfin filmed their piece Flapper Wives as a producer and director.
Jane Murfin and Adela Rogers St. Johns were on the Academy Awards in 1932 for her work on What Price Hollywood? Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in the category.
Murfin was married in second marriage to actor Donald Crisp.