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(14 May 1881, Eldorado, Kansas - 9
November 1950, Los Angeles, California)
Writer and actress. She wrote 21 plays from 1919 to 1940. Appeard in
5 films from 1927 until 1933.
Most of Fulton's theatrical pieces, including The Humming Bird, The
Brat and The Girl from Avenue A, were eventually filmed by
Hollywood. Her own entree into movies was as a character actress in
the silent productions Silk Legs (1927). Maude Fulton turned
screenwriter in the early-talkie era, working on such no-nonsense
melodramatic fare as Safe in Hell (1931), The Maltese Falcon (1931)
and Broadway Bad (1933). |