Josephine Lovett
Josephine Lovett ( born October 21, 1877 in San Francisco, California, † September 17, 1958 in Rancho Santa Fe, California; actually Josephine Shaw) was an American screenwriter.
Life
Using her stage name Josephine Lovett they first tried a career as a film actress in Hollywood. After just one appearance in 1916 in a film directed by Ralph Ince Lovett joined the profession and began a long career as a screenwriter. You wrote, among other things, the script for the second version of Mary Pickford's Tess of the Storm Country by 1922. Later Josephine Lovett joined the newly formed film company MGM and wrote for such stars as Lillian Gish ( Annie Laurie 1927 ) and Greta Garbo ( invisible shackles of 1929 ).
At the Academy Awards ceremony in April 1930, she was nominated Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Our Dancing Daughters for an Oscar in the category, whose success in 1928 Joan Crawford allowed the breakthrough to stardom. Lovett wrote the screenplay in 1929 for Our Modern Maidens, the second of three Crawford films that have the suffix " Our" in the title. After 1935, Lovett retired into private life.