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Eleanor Fried

Eleanor Fried

American screenwriter

Eleanor Fried was a Russian Empire-born American film editor, business manager, and screenwriter who worked at Universal and MGM in the 1910s and 1920s.[1][2][3] Like most editors of the early silent era, she didn't receive on-screen credit for her earliest efforts.

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Biography

Eleanor was born in Grodno, the Russian Empire (currently Belarus) in 1891. As a young girl, she immigrated to the New York City with her family. She began studying to become a lawyer after high school but instead found herself drawn to showbusiness.[4]

She began her career as a film editor at Universal in New York before moving to Los Angeles to cut films alongside Frank Lawrence at Universal.[5][6][7] At Universal, she worked for years as an editor and staff critic[8] before getting a chance to write her own scripts and eventually become a business manager.[9] She was signed to MGM's writing staff in 1926.[10]

She was married to writer-director Scott Darling.[11]

Selected filmography

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    "Her Job's a Snap!". The Washington Herald. 17 Apr 1919. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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    "New M-G-M Writer". The Los Angeles Times. 19 Nov 1926. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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    "Universal Players Back from the Orient". Los Angeles Evening Express. 17 Apr 1920. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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