June Mathis

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Rudolph Valentino and June Mathis

June Mathis , born June Beulah Hughes , married June Balboni , (born June 30, 1892 in Leadville , Colorado , † July 26, 1927 in New York City ) was an American screenwriter.

Life

June Mathis, born into a theater family from Colorado, was a playwright before the outbreak of World War I. Director Edwin Carewe hired them in 1918 for Metro Pictures Corporation . She first wrote dramas with Alla Nazimova in the lead role. The following year she was promoted to head of the script department. Her final breakthrough came with the script for Buster Keaton's Buster Keaton on the stock exchange . Then she wrote the script for the anti-German family drama The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolph Valentino. Four more scripts for Valentino's films followed. Her reputation became so great that she asked the Metro to revise the script of the monumental drama Greed for Money by Erich von Stroheim . In 1924 she was a member of a team of authors who wrote the book on Fred Niblos Ben Hur . On December 6, 1924, she married Sylvano Balboni. In 1926 she moved to First National . The following year, at the age of only 35, she died suddenly of a heart attack while attending a theater performance with her mother . Her last words were "Mother, I'm dying".

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 326.

Web links

Commons : June Mathis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Pioneer Female Producer June Mathis: Q&A with Author Allan Ellenberger (English)