Margaret Mayo (playwright)
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Margaret Mayo, born Lillian Elizabeth Slatten (November 19, 1882, Brownsville, Illinois
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February 25, 1951, Ossining, New York
), was an American actress, playwright
and screenwriter
. She is buried in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery, Mt. Kisko, New York.
Margaret Mayo was a stage actress from 1896 to 1903, when she retired from performing to devote herself to playwriting. Her earliest successes were adaptations of novels: The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) and The Jungle (1907). However, Mayo is best remembered as the author of more original plays such as Polly of the Circus (1907), Baby Mine (1910), Twin Beds (1914), and Seeing Things (1920), written with Aubrey Kennedy. She adapted several of her plays for the silent screen. Her play Polly of the Circus
became the first film produced by the Goldwyn Company
in 1917, of which she was a founding member along with her former husband Edgar Selwyn. The play was again made into a film in 1932.
Margaret Mayo was instrumental in making housing arrangements for the India
n spiritual teacher Meher Baba
at Harmon, near New York City
, during his fist visit to America in 1931. She owned and provided the stone house retreat where he stayed on this first trip.
Brownsville, Illinois
Brownsville, Illinois, is a ghost town in Southern Illinois.Brownsville, located where Kinkade Creek empties into the Big Muddy River, is the former county seat of Jackson County. It was abandoned when the courthouse burned to the ground in 1843, and the county seat was then moved to Murphysboro,...
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February 25, 1951, Ossining, New York
Ossining (village), New York
Ossining is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 25,060 at the 2010 census. As a village, it is located in the Town of Ossining.-Geography:Ossining borders the eastern shores of the widest part of the Hudson River....
), was an American actress, playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. She is buried in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery, Mt. Kisko, New York.
Margaret Mayo was a stage actress from 1896 to 1903, when she retired from performing to devote herself to playwriting. Her earliest successes were adaptations of novels: The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) and The Jungle (1907). However, Mayo is best remembered as the author of more original plays such as Polly of the Circus (1907), Baby Mine (1910), Twin Beds (1914), and Seeing Things (1920), written with Aubrey Kennedy. She adapted several of her plays for the silent screen. Her play Polly of the Circus
Polly of the Circus
Polly of the Circus is a 1932 American MGM drama film directed by Alfred Santell. The film stars Marion Davies and Clark Gable.-First version:...
became the first film produced by the Goldwyn Company
Goldwyn Pictures
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name...
in 1917, of which she was a founding member along with her former husband Edgar Selwyn. The play was again made into a film in 1932.
Margaret Mayo was instrumental in making housing arrangements for the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n spiritual teacher Meher Baba
Meher Baba
Meher Baba , , born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age....
at Harmon, near New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, during his fist visit to America in 1931. She owned and provided the stone house retreat where he stayed on this first trip.