June Mathis
June Mathis, born June Beulah Hughes, married June Balboni, (* June 30, 1892 in Leadville, Colorado, † July 26, 1927 in New York City ) was an American screenwriter.
Life
June Mathis was born into a theatrical family from Colorado, was already before the outbreak of World War playwright. Director Edwin Carewe it undertook in 1918 for the Metro Pictures Corporation. You first wrote dramas with Alla Nazimova in the title role. The following year, she was promoted to head of the script department. The final breakthrough came with the script to Buster Keaton Buster Keaton on the stock exchange. Then she wrote the script for anti-German family drama The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolph Valentino. It was followed by four more screenplays for films Valentinos. Their reputation was so great that she asked the Metro to the revision of the script of the drama monumental greed for money by Erich von Stroheim. In 1924 she was a member of a team of authors that wrote the book to Fred Niblos Ben Hur. On December 6, 1924, she married Sylvano Balboni. In 1926 she moved to First National. The following year, she died quite unexpectedly at the age of only 35 years, while she attended a theater performance with her mother to a heart attack. Her last words were, " Mother, I'm dying " (Mother, I'm dying ).