Elizabeth Mahoney Explained

Elizabeth Mahoney
Birth Date:November 1879
Birth Place:Elma, Iowa, USA
Death Date:??
Death Place:??
Occupation:Screenwriter

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Mahoney was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era. She also was in charge of continuity in a number of other films during her time in the industry.[1] She worked primarily at the American Film Company (based in Santa Barbara, California) and Essanay, frequently collaborating with screenwriter June Mathis as well as director Lloyd Ingraham.[2]

Biography

Mahoney was born to Daniel Mahoney and Ellen Kane in Elma, Iowa, where she grew up on a farm; she also spent time in Chicago.[3] By the early 1910s, she had moved to Hollywood, where she worked as a stenographer before breaking into the film industry as a screenwriter.[4] Her first known screenwriting assignment involved adapting Charles Thomas Dazey's story into the 1917 silent drama Peggy Leads the Way, directed by Ingraham and shot on location at Ben Lomond near Santa Cruz, California.[5] She continued writing through around 1920, at which point she was residing in Hollywood. Little is known of what happened to her after that date.

Selected works

Screenplays:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: News and Views of the Screen. 13 Jan 1918. The Los Angeles Times. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190214174711/http://www.newspapers.com/image/380558532/?terms=%22elizabeth+mahoney%22+scenario . 2019-02-14 . 2019-02-14.
  2. Web site: Essenay Studios Reopen. 7 Nov 1923. The Ottawa Journal. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190215000336/http://www.newspapers.com/image/46203896/?terms=%22elizabeth+mahoney%22+scenario . 2019-02-15 . 2019-02-14.
  3. Web site: County News. 30 Aug 1910. Twice-a-Week Plain Dealer. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190214233405/http://www.newspapers.com/image/174868746/?terms=%22elizabeth+mahoney%22+elma . 2019-02-14 . 2019-02-14.
  4. Web site: County News. 2 May 1919. Cresco Plain Dealer. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190214174816/http://www.newspapers.com/image/174426306/?terms=%22elizabeth+mahoney%22+hollywood . 2019-02-14 . 2019-02-14.
  5. Web site: All the News of the Movie World. 23 Sep 1917. The Courier-Journal. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190214174644/http://www.newspapers.com/image/119412545/?terms=%22elizabeth+mahoney%22+scenario . 2019-02-14 . 2019-02-14.
  6. Web site: Flickers from Film Land. 26 May 1918. Detroit Free Press. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190214174820/http://www.newspapers.com/image/118593927/?terms=%22elizabeth+mahoney%22+scenario . 2019-02-14 . 2019-02-14.
  7. Web site: Juliette Day Is Coming. 4 Jan 1918. Jackson Daily News. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190214174659/http://www.newspapers.com/image/194332888/?terms=%22elizabeth+mahoney%22+scenario . 2019-02-14 . 2019-02-14.