The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood

Copyright, Dedication

Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Copyright © 1999 by frederica Maas Published by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth. serving Bellarmine College. Berea College. Centre College of Kentucky. Eastern Kentucky University. The filson Club Historical Society. Georgetown College. Kentucky Historical Society. Kentucky State University. Morehead State University. Murray State University. Northern Kentucky University. Transylvania University. University of Kentucky. University of Louisville. and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved. Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street. Lexington. Kentucky 40508-4008 030201 0099 5432 frontispiece: Frederica Sagor in 1924 while story editor for Universal Pictures' New York office. "Death. the Last Visit" by Marie Howe originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1984. Reprinted by permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Maas. Frederica Sagor. 1900The shocking Miss Pilgrim: a writer in early Hollywood / frederica Sagor Maas. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8131-2122-1 (alk. paper) I. Maas. frederica Sagor. 1900- 2. Hollywood (Los Angeles. Calif.)-Social life and customs. 3. Motion picture industry-California-Los Angeles. 4. Women screenwriters-United States-Biography. 5. Motion picture authorship. I. Title. PS3525.A1122Z474 1999 812'.52-dc21 [B] 98-49980 This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.§@ Manufactured in the United States of America To the "Swell fish" that my husband, Ernest, and I parentedcreative works that never saw the light of day. ...