Word: biographers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loos began as an actress in her father's theater in California and began selling scenarios to D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company. From there, Loos went on to compile one of the most impressive writing resumes of any woman this century. In addition to Gentlemen, Loos was responsible for the screen versions of San Francisco and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as well as Douglas Fairbanks' early silent classics...
...Kentucky farm boy, the son of a Confederate war hero, David Wark Griffith seemed more suited to be a child of 19th century lost causes than a pioneer of the art form of the future. But once the young actor walked into Biograph film studios on New York City's East 14th Street, the movies came to possess him as his romance of romances...
...Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) has arranged for an airing of all three films on the congressional closed-circuit television network; the Biograph Theatre in Washington has been showing the films to sellout crowds, cancelling Hitchcock flicks to do it. And producer Joseph Papp plans to show the films at his public New York theatre...