Bradley King (screenwriter)

For the American film director, see Bradley King (filmmaker). For the theatrical lighting designer, see Bradley King (lighting designer).

Bradley King
Bradley King in 1923
Born	Josephine McLaughlin (1894-08-04)August 4, 1894 Chicago, Illinois, US
Died	August 24, 1977 New York, New York, US
Years active	1920–1947

Bradley King ((1894-08-04)August 4, 1894 – August 24, 1977) was the pen name of Josephine McLaughlin, born in Chicago on July 8, 1894. She was a successful screenwriter who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947.

Biography

She was married several times. One was a short marriage to silent film director John Griffith Wray. After a later husband, George Hiram Boyd, lost most of her $400,000 fortune to bad investments, she divorced him in 1940. She wrote her last screenplay for the 1947 movie, That's My Man, and disappeared at age 53. She had been having poor health. She was never heard from again, and there's no known record of her death. All but one of her 40 silent films are lost, but most of her 20 or so sound films still exist.

Selected filmography

• Anna Christie (1923)
• Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924)
• When the Door Opened (1925)
• The Gilded Butterfly (1926)
• Hell's Four Hundred (1926)
• The Return of Peter Grimm (1926)
• Under the Black Eagle (1928)
• Scarlet Seas (1929)
• Drag (1929)
• Weary River (1929)
• The Squall (1929)
• Young Nowheres (1929)
• Drag (1929)
• Dark Streets (1929)
• Son of the Gods (1930)
• The Lash (1930)
• The Mask Falls (1931)
• Six Hours to Live (1932)
• Let's Live Tonight (1935)
• Maid of Salem (1937)

External links

• Bradley King at IMDb
• Bradley King at Women Film Pioneers Project