Margaret Mayo (playwright)

Margaret Mayo (playwright): Margaret Mayo

Born November 19, 1882(1882-11-19)
Brownsville, Illinois, United States

Died February 25, 1951(1951-02-25) (aged 68)
Ossining, New York, United States

Occupation Playwright, Screenwriter, Actress

Margaret Mayo, born Lillian Elizabeth Slatten^[1] (November 19, 1882, Brownsville, Illinois - 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.^[2] The play was again made into a film in 1932.

Margaret Mayo was instrumental in making housing arrangements for the Indian 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.^[3]

References

^ Alumni Directory and Ten-year Book (graduates and Non-graduates), 4, Stanford University, 1932, pp. 495

^ List of Goldwyn Company films at IMDB

^ Lord Meher, by Bhau Kalchuri, Manifestation Inc., 1986. p. 1466

External links

Margaret Mayo at the Internet Movie Database

Margaret Mayo at the Internet Broadway Database

Works by Margaret Mayo at Project Gutenberg

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Name Mayo, Margaret

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Date of birth November 19, 1882

Place of birth Brownsville, Illinois, United States

Date of death February 25, 1951

Place of death Ossining, New York, United States

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1882 births
1951 deaths
American screenwriters
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American stage actors
Women screenwriters

Margaret Mayo
Born	November 19, 1882(1882-11-19) Brownsville, Illinois, United States
Died	February 25, 1951(1951-02-25) (aged 68) Ossining, New York, United States
Occupation	Playwright, Screenwriter, Actress

Persondata
Name	Mayo, Margaret
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	November 19, 1882
Place of birth	Brownsville, Illinois, United States
Date of death	February 25, 1951
Place of death	Ossining, New York, United States

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