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Frederica Sagor Maas (born Frederica Sagor, July 6, 1900, New York City) is an American playwright, essayist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ...
An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ...
An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...
Biography
After studying journalism at the University of Columbia and doing odd jobs as a writer at the New York Globe, she got an engagement at Universal Studios as a story editor, and later a job as a screenwriter at MGM. Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. ...
Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...
The current Universal Studios logo Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the major American film studios that has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los...
MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...
In 1925, she helped Clara Bow gain cinematic stardom with the film The Plastic Age. From then on she worked with famous stars of the silent film era such as Norma Shearer, with whom she became an intimate friend, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Barbara Kent and Emil Jannings. Clara Bow Clara Bow (born July 29, 1907[1]; - September 27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, best known for her film work in the 1920s and early 1930s. ...
The Plastic Age is a black-and-white, silent film made in 1925, in which Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland appeared. ...
A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...
Norma Shearer in a gown by Adrian. ...
Greta Garbo (September 17, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish actress, by reputation one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever to be produced by MGM and the Hollywood studio system. ...
John Gilbert John Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was an actor and major star of the silent film era. ...
Barbara Kent Barbara Kent (born December 6, 1906 in Gasby, Alberta, Canada) was a popular actress in silent movies. ...
Emil Jannings (July 23, 1884 - January 3, 1950) was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor. ...
In 1927, she married Ernest Maas. They were together until his death in 1986. Ernest Maas (January 22, 1892 - July 21, 1986) was a Silent-era screenwriter. ...
In 1947 she wrote her final screenplay, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, a story about feminism in the late 19th Century. Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerned with the experiences of women. ...
During the McCarthy Era, the period of intense suspicion in the United States in the 1950s, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers, Sagor and her husband were interrogated by the FBI for having subscribed to two Communist publications. Senator Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. ...
The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ...
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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ...
Subversion is an overturning or uprooting. ...
This article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. ...
In 1999, at age 99, she published her autobiography, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood, in which she settled up with Hollywood and the United States government. ...
Filmography The Farmers Daughter is a 1947 movie which tells the story of a small-town girl from Minnesota who moves to Washington, DC to work as a housekeeper for her local Congressman. ...
Hula is a 1927 film by Victor Fleming. ...
For the 1903 novel, see The Way of All Flesh The Way of All Flesh is a 1927 film that was written by Lajos Biró, Jules Furthman, Julian Johnson and Ernest Maas from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. ...
It is a 1927 romantic film which tells the story of a shop girl who sets her sights on the handsome owner of the store where she works, only to find her plan endangered when a reporter writes a story claiming she is an unwed mother. ...
The First Night is a 1998 number-one hit single by American R&B singer Monica from her second album, The Boy is Mine. ...
Flesh and the Devil is a classic 1926 movie starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. ...
The Plastic Age is a black-and-white, silent film made in 1925, in which Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland appeared. ...
External links - Interview with Frederica Sagor
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