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Frederica Sagor Maas is a Scriptwriter American born on 6 july 1900 at New York City (USA)
Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas (July 6, 1900 – January 5, 2012) was an American dramatist and playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and author,
the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. As an essayist Maas was best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. She was one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity.
She studied journalism at Columbia University and held a summer job as a copy- or errand-girl at the New York Globe. She dropped out before graduation in 1918 and took a job as an assistant story editor at Universal Pictures' New York office at $100 a week. By 1923 Maas was story editor for Universal and head of the department. A year later in 1924, Maas had become dissatisfied with her position and left Universal to move to Hollywood.
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Birth name Frederica Alexandrina Sagor
Nationality USA
Birth 6 july 1900 at New York City (USA)
Death 5 january 2012 (at 111 years) at La Mesa (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 6 july 1900 at New York City (USA)
Death 5 january 2012 (at 111 years) at La Mesa (USA)
the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. As an essayist Maas was best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. She was one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity.
Biography
Maas's parents, Arnold and Agnessa Zagosky, emigrated from Moscow, Russian Empire, and anglicized their surname to Sagor. Her mother supported the family as a very successful midwife. One of four daughters, Frederica Alexandrina Sagor was born on July 6, 1900 in a cold-water, railroad flat on 101st Street near Madison Avenue in Manhattan.She studied journalism at Columbia University and held a summer job as a copy- or errand-girl at the New York Globe. She dropped out before graduation in 1918 and took a job as an assistant story editor at Universal Pictures' New York office at $100 a week. By 1923 Maas was story editor for Universal and head of the department. A year later in 1924, Maas had become dissatisfied with her position and left Universal to move to Hollywood.
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
, 1h25Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Revere, Gene Lockhart, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Story
Rating63%
Cynthia Pilgrim (Betty Grable) is the top typewriting (Typewriter) student of the first graduating class of the Packard Business College in New York City, and as such she is offered a position with the Pritchard Shipping Company in Boston. There, she finds an office of men overseen by office manager Mr. Saxon (Gene Lockhart). When Cynthia introduces herself to company co-owner John Pritchard (Dick Haymes), he tells her he thought all expert typists were male and his policy is to hire only men. Cynthia asks for an opportunity to prove she's as efficient as her male counterparts, but John refuses and offers her train fare back to New York.
Piernas de seda (1935)
, 1h20Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rosita Moreno, Rita Hayworth, Raul Roulien
Roles Story
Rating61%
Red Hair (1928)
, 1h10Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Clara Bow, Lane Chandler, William Austin, Jacqueline Gadsden, Lawrence Grant, Claude King
Roles Writer
Rating65%
A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted.
Hula (1927)
, 1h4Directed by Victor Fleming, Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Clara Bow, Clive Brook, Arlette Marchal, Albert Gran, Arnold Kent, Arnold Kent
Rating62%
Hula Calhoun (Clara Bow) is the daughter of a Hawaiian planter, Bill Calhoun (Albert Gran). She follows the advice of her uncle Edwin (Agostino Borgato), and follows a simple and natural life, far from social conventions of her family and is considered a "wild child" who wears pants and rides horses.
It (1927)
, 1h12Directed by Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Priscilla Bonner, Jacqueline Gadsden, Julia Swayne Gordon
Rating71%
Spunky shopgirl Betty Lou Spence (Clara Bow) has a crush on her handsome employer, Cyrus Waltham, Jr. (Antonio Moreno), the new manager of and heir to the "world's largest store". However, they belong to different social classes, and he is already romantically linked to blond socialite Adela Van Norman (Jacqueline Gadsden). Cyrus's silly friend Monty (William Austin) notices Betty, though, and she uses him to get closer to Cyrus.
Rolled Stockings (1927)
Directed by Richard Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Louise Brooks, James Hall, Richard Arlen, El Brendel, David Torrence, Chance Ward
Roles Story
Rating69%
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
, 1h34Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith, Fred Kohler, Philippe De Lacy
Rating67%
In the story, which opens in the early 1900s, Jannings plays August Schiller, a bank clerk in Milwaukee who is happy with both his job and his family. But when bank officials ask him to transport $1,000 in securities to Chicago, he meets a blond seductress on the train, who sees what he is carrying. She flirts with him, convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon run by a crook. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom, without the securities. He finds the woman, and at first pleads with her, then intimidates her to return the stolen securities. He is knocked unconscious by the saloon owner and dragged to a nearby railroad track.
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
, 1h52Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Philippe De Lacy, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond
Rating75%
The film is a romantic melodrama about two childhood friends who grow up to be soldiers in Germany. One of the friends, Leo (Gilbert), becomes infatuated with Felicitas (Garbo), the wife of a powerful count (a marriage about which Felicitas neglects to inform Leo). The count calls for a duel of honor with Leo, but insists that it be done under the false pretense that the quarrel was due to angry words exchanged between the two at a card game in order to protect the count's reputation. Leo kills the count in the duel, but then is punished by the military, being sent away to Africa for five years.
Dance Madness (1926)
, 1h10Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Claire Windsor, Conrad Nagel, Hedda Hopper, Pauline Starke
Roles Scenario Writer
May (Claire Windsor) is married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser (Conrad Nagel). During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer (Hedda Hopper) and trying to seduce him.
The Waning Sex (1926)
, 1h10Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, George K. Arthur, Mary McAllister, Martha Mattox
Rating63%
Nina Duane (Norma Shearer) is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry (Conrad Nagel), the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing widow Mary Booth (Mary McAllister), then defeats her in romancing the D.A.
That Model from Paris (1926)
, 1h10Directed by Louis Gasnier
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bert Lytell, Marceline Day, Eileen Percy, Ward Crane, Miss DuPont, Arthur Hoyt
Rating72%
Jane Miller, une caissière chez Katz & Katz, un magasin de vêtements pour femmes, est une jeune femme qui ne sait jamais comment s'habiller. Une de ses collègues l'invite aux Follies et la persuade d'emrunter une des robes du magasin. Au théâtre, M. Katz reconnait la robe et celle qui la porte, et la licencie. Morgan Grant, le petit ami de sa collègue, demande à Martel, un de ses amis, d'engager Jane comme mannequin pour le salon des couturiers La Salle Frères. Lorsque la célèbre mannequin française Mademoiselle Lucette n'est pas capable de participer au défilé, Jane est obligée de la remplacer. Pour cacher son ignorance du Français, on lui conseille de répondre non à tout ce qu'on lui dit. Bob Richmond, le fils du propriétaire de La Salle Frères, s'éprend d'elle sans succès. Grant lui fait lui aussi des avances infructueuses. Bob découvre l'imposture mais, après qu'elle s'est expliquée, ils reconnaissent être amoureux l'un de l'autre.
The Plastic Age (1925)
, 1h13Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Gilbert Roland, Mary Alden, Clark Gable, Henry B. Walthall
Roles Adaptation
Rating60%
Hugh Carver (Donald Keith) is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. During a hazing initiation by his fraternity brothers, he meets Cynthia Day (Clara Bow), a popular girl who loves to party and have a good time. She introduces him to the pleasures of illicit drinking, dancing at illegal roadhouses, and getting nasty in the back seats of cars. A love-triangle develops between Day, Carver, and Carver's roommate, Carl Peters (Gilbert Roland), who also likes Day. Eventually, Peters gives up his crush on Day and reconciles his friendship with Carver.
The Goose Woman (1925)
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett, George Cooper, Gustav von Seyffertitz, George Nichols
Rating68%
His Secretary (1925)
, 1h10Directed by Hobart Henley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Norma Shearer, Lew Cody, Willard Louis, Karl Dane, Gwen Lee, Mabel Van Buren
Roles Story
Rating60%
Comedy about an ugly duckling who overhears her boss saying he wouldn't kiss her for a thousand dollars. She then goes to a beautician.