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EG produced and appeared as herself in her film It. Clara Bow played the leading role. Clarence Badger directed the film, which had been designed by Paramount 's Benjamin Schulberg .

To boost her persona as a dignified foreign lady, she called herself Madame Glyn. In 1921 she produced her first film, The Great Moment, which was directed by Sam Wood

Elinor Glyn Ltd was formed to govern her finances, to secure her the copyrights in and royalties from her films, and to help her gain negotiating credibility. As a member of the board, Rhys-Williams went...

Between 1933 and 1941, she was a Drama Professor at Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona, Florida) and North Carolina College for Negroes , now North Carolina Central University . In 1941, she was a staff...

EG entered the Hollywood film industry, accepting a contract with Jesse Lasky of Famous-Players-Lasky (later Paramount) to study film-writing and to compose film-scripts.

EG signed a contract with Jesse Lasky of Famous-Players-Lasky (later Paramount) to write film scripts; she would earn 10,000 dollars US for each script written, and if the films did well her contract could be...

Under contract again with Famous-Players-Lasky (now Paramount) , EG adapted her popular novellaIt for silent film.Clara Bow , who made her debut in this film, became known as the It Girl.

ML dedicated this novel to her son Jonathan. She took her title from Blake 's The Little Boy Lost: Father, father where are you going? / Oh, do not walk so fast! / Speak...

AD adapted Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë for Paramount Films . The official title, for copyright reasons involving the film version of 1939, was Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

This serial was adapted by Hugh Perceval in 1931 as a black-and-white Paramount film called Man of Mayfair, starring Jack Buchanan and Joan Barry .ME did not publish her novel The Child in...

A film adaption of MLR 's Mice and Men premiered in the USA, produced by the fairly new Famous Players Company (an ancestor of Paramount through Famous-Players-Lasky) and directed by J. Searle Dawley .

EG adapted this script for Famous-Players-Lasky from her 1906 novel of the same title. The film, which she co-wrote with Jack Cunningham , was released in 1922. Though it was not a good film and...

In the same year and again for Paramount , EG had also written the film-script for the light-hearted film Ritzy, which did not achieve the box-office success of It or of her previous films...