Jeanie Macpherson


Actor, Screenwriter

About

Also Known As
Jeanie Mcpherson
Birth Place
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Born
May 18, 1884
Died
August 26, 1946
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

Jeanie Macpherson's talent for screenwriting gave her a Hollywood career. Macpherson's career beginnings can be traced back to writing for films such as "Joan the Woman" (1916), "A Romance of the Redwoods" (1917) and "The Little American" (1917). She also appeared in "Male and Female" (1919), "Something to Think About" (1920) and "The Affairs of Anatol" (1921). In the latter half ...

Family & Companions

Cecil B DeMille
Companion
Director.

Biography

Jeanie Macpherson's talent for screenwriting gave her a Hollywood career. Macpherson's career beginnings can be traced back to writing for films such as "Joan the Woman" (1916), "A Romance of the Redwoods" (1917) and "The Little American" (1917). She also appeared in "Male and Female" (1919), "Something to Think About" (1920) and "The Affairs of Anatol" (1921). In the latter half of her career, Macpherson wrote "The Road to Yesterday" (1925), "King of Kings" (1927) and "Dynamite" (1929). She also appeared in "Madam Satan" (1930) and the Stan Laurel comedy "The Devil's Brother" (1933). Macpherson last wrote the Fredric March adventure "The Buccaneer" (1938). Macpherson passed away in August 1946 at the age of 62.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Hollywood (1923)
Carmen (1915)
Frasquita
The Captive (1915)
Milka
Rose of the Rancho (1914)
Isabelita, Espinoza's daughter
A Child's Stratagem (1910)
Winning Back His Love (1910)
A Salutary Lesson (1910)
His Sister-in-Law (1910)
The Lesson (1910)
An Old Story with a New Ending (1910)
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
Sweet Revenge (1909)
Money Mad (1908)
The Clubman and the Tramp (1908)
The Christmas Burglars (1908)
Concealing a Burglar (1908)

Writer (Feature Film)

Unconquered (1947)
Scen
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Contr to trt
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Contract Writer
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Contract Writer
Land of Liberty (1941)
Narr wrt by
Union Pacific (1939)
Contr to Screenplay const
The Buccaneer (1938)
Adaptation
The Plainsman (1937)
Material comp
The Crusades (1935)
Contr to trmt
The Devil's Brother (1933)
Adaptation
Madame Satan (1930)
Writer
Dynamite (1929)
Screenwriter
The Godless Girl (1929)
Story
The Godless Girl (1929)
Cont
The Godless Girl (1929)
Dial
The Godless Girl (1929)
Titles
Dynamite (1929)
Dial
The King of Kings (1927)
Screenwriter
The King of Kings (1927)
Story
Young April (1926)
Adaptation
Red Dice (1926)
Adaptation
Red Dice (1926)
Prod Editor
The Road to Yesterday (1925)
Adaptation
The Golden Bed (1925)
Screenwriter
Triumph (1924)
Screenwriter
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Scen
Adam's Rib (1923)
Scen
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Story
Adam's Rib (1923)
Story
Manslaughter (1922)
Scen
Saturday Night (1922)
Story and scen
Manslaughter (1922)
Adaptation
Forbidden Fruit (1921)
Story
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Scen
Something to Think About (1920)
Story
Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Story
Male and Female (1919)
Scen
For Better, for Worse (1919)
Scen
Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Scen
Till I Come Back to You (1918)
Scen
Old Wives for New (1918)
Scen
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
Scen
Till I Come Back to You (1918)
Story
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
Story
The Devil Stone (1917)
Scen
The Woman God Forgot (1917)
Story
The Little American (1917)
Story and scen
Joan the Woman (1916)
Scen
The Dream Girl (1916)
Scen
The Golden Chance (1916)
Scen
The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)
Scen
The Love Mask (1916)
Story
The Captive (1915)
Scen
Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
Scen
The Captive (1915)
Story
The Cheat (1915)
Scen

Music (Feature Film)

The Crusades (1935)
Composer

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Cleopatra (1934)
Research

Cast (Short)

Comrades (1911)
The Curtain Pole (1909)

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Love Can't Be Kept In Cold Storage Arisen in the evening, dressed formally after the previous night of carousing with another woman but having forgotten their concert date, affluent Bob (Reginald Denny) with wife Angela (Kay Johnson), who’s not so much angry as worried about losing him, early in C.B. DeMille’s MGM musical-melodrama hybrid Madam Satan, 1930.
Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Heaven Forgive Thee Kindly We’ve just met Kay Johnson as super-rich Angela, whose staff has been helping her ignore her husband having failed to come home, when he (Reginald Denny) and buddy Roland Young appear, and she provides them a graceful entrance, in the second feature in C.B. DeMille’s three-picture MGM deal, Madam Satan, 1930.
Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Low Down Much talked about, the “other woman” to the husband of the wealthy couple Bob and Angela, Lillian Roth as performer and party-girl Trixie, Jack King, with Eddie Prinz on banjo and dancing, her accompanists, in a song by King and Elsie Janis, in Cecil B. DeMille’s unusual MGM musical-spectacle Madam Satan, 1930.
Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) The Cat Walk This is where the C.B. DeMille grandeur and MGM budget come forth, at the society ball on board a blimp where the neglected heroine is about to appear in exotic costume, with few identifiable actors, though the director’s daughter Katherine is one of the dancing cats, song by Herbert Stothart and Clifford Grey, in Madam Satan, 1930
King of Kings, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Magdalene Mary Magdalene (Jacqueline Logan) is furious when fellow courtesans tell her that Judas is following some preaching carpenter in this color sequence from Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings, 1927, score by Donald Sosin.
King of Kings, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Whosever Believeth... A blind girl (Muriel McCormac) is introduced by Mary (Dorothy Cumming) for the first appearance and miracle by Jesus, "The Christ," (H.B. Warner) in Cecil B. De Mille's The King of Kings, 1927, music by Donald Sosin.
King of Kings, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Get Thee Behind Me! Having just cleared the temple, Jesus (H.B. Warner) gets an offer from Satan (Alan Brooks) which he rejects before speaking to the masses, in Cecil B. De Mille's King of Kings, 1927, music by Donald Sosin.
King of Kings, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Lazarus Jesus (H.B. Warner) has been summoned to aid Lazarus (Kenneth Thompson) who turns out not to be beyond help, in Cecil B. De Mille's 1927 silent epic The King of Kings, music by Donald Sosin.
Devil's Brother, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Too Rich My Lady The title character (Dennis King) romancing the pulchritudinous Lady Pamela (Thelma Todd), her husband Lord Rochberg (James Finlayson) aside, in the Laurel & Hardy period comedy The Devil's Brother, 1933.
King of Kings, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Prologue Opening fanfare and framing titles from Cecil B. De Mille's 1927 silent biblical epic The King of Kings, starring H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming and Joseph Schildkraut, music by Donald Sosin.

Companions

Cecil B DeMille
Companion
Director.

Bibliography