5 Screenwriters To Know

January 5th is National Screenwriters Day and in honor of that I've rounded up a list of five women screenwriters to know.

Florabel Muir

Wrote 1935's Fighting Youth for Universal Pictures

Matilda Beatrice DeMille

Co-wrote 1917's The Devil-Stone and Castles for Two and Betty to the Rescue

Bonus- Was mother to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille

Anita Loos

Was the writer for many shorts from 1912 to 1921 and wrote for several films in the 1930s including 1932's Red-Headed Woman co-wrote 1936's San Francisco

June Mathis

Wrote screenplay for 1921's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and 1922's The Young Rajah

Joan Harrison

Co-wrote with Robert E. Sherwood the screenplay for 1940's Rebecca and co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Bennett 1940's Foreign Correspondent

Until Next Time,

Ashley A.