Jeanie Macpherson

Jeanie Macpherson ( born May 18, 1887 in Boston, † August 26 1946 in Los Angeles ) was an American actress and screenwriter.

Life

She started as a dancer and stage actress. In 1908 she came to the Biograph film company and joined within three years in about 100 films, directed by David Wark Griffith, and almost exclusively in secondary roles. From 1912, she was also at the Edison Company and sporadically in other film companies before the camera. 1913 originated in Powers Picture Plays some movies under the direction and with Edwin August. In late 1914, she met Cecil B. DeMille know who brought them to the company of Jesse L. Lasky, where Macpherson in Rose of the Rancho had her first role in a DeMille movie. She appeared in six movies of this director, most recently in 1915 alongside Geraldine Farrar and Wallace Reid in Carmen. She took over in 1917 in a film by Edwin August your last role.

Macpherson, who had already gained experience in several films as a screenwriter, was hired by DeMille as an author. Her first screenplay for a DeMille film was The Captive (1915 ). By 1930, they worked closely together, and then only sporadically. During this time she was responsible for more than 30 screenplays, including The Cheat (1915), Joan the Woman ( 1916), The Little American (1917 ), Do not Change Your Husband ( 1919), Male and Female (1919), manslaughter (1922 ), the Ten Commandments (1923 ), King of Kings (1927 ) dynamite ( 1929) and the buccaneers of Louisiana ( 1938).

As a screenwriter, she was in 1927 one of the 36 founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She died at the age of 59 years to cancer and was buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

For her contribution to the film Jeanie Macpherson was a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6150 Hollywood Blvd. honored.