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Full Name
  
Maude Fulton

Name
  
Maude Fulton

Years active
  
1904–1950

Role
  
Actress

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Born
  
May 14, 1881 (
1881-05-14
)

Occupation
  
Actress, Playwright, Screenwriter

Died
  
November 9, 1950, Los Angeles, California, United States

Spouse
  
Robert Ober (m. 1920–1926)

Parents
  
Titus P. Fulton, Lulu Fulton

Movies
  
The Maltese Falcon, Safe in Hell, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Brat, Command Performance

Similar People
  
Roy Del Ruth, J Farrell MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, William A Wellman, John Ford

Maude Fulton (May 14, 1881 – November 9, 1950) was a Broadway stage actress, playwright, composer, dancer, concert pianist, stage director, theater manager, and later a Hollywood screenwriter and actress.

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Biography

She was born on May 14, 1881. Fulton was the daughter of newspaperman Titus Parker Fulton and Lulu Belle Couchman. She grew up in Eldorado, Kansas and Lexington, Missouri, and worked as a stenographer, telegraph operator, and short story writer before becoming an actress. She first appeared on the stage in amateur productions in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1904.

On the opening night of Fulton's Broadway debut, in the cast of Mam'zelle Champagne (1906), Harry K. Thaw murdered architect Stanford White over the affections of Evelyn Nesbit. In all Fulton acted or danced in seven Broadway shows. She also appeared in Vaudeville shows with William Rock, whom she met when he choreographed her on Broadway in The Orchid (1907) and appeared with her in Funabashi (1908) and The Candy Shop (1909).

Fulton's greatest personal success was the 1917 play The Brat, which ran for 136 performances. Written by Fulton, it was produced by Oliver Morosco, starred Fulton and John Findlay, and featured Lewis Stone and Edmund Lowe. The Brat was made into a 1919 silent picture starring Alla Nazimova, a John Ford talkie in 1931, and again as The Girl From Avenue A in 1940, with Jane Withers, Elyse Knox, and Laura Hope Crews. She wrote another play, The Humming Bird, which opened on Broadway in 1923. It starred Fulton and Hilda Spong, and was directed by and featured her then-husband Robert Ober. During the silent era, Fulton wrote the intertitles for many pictures such as Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) with Ronald Colman and Don Juan (1926) with John Barrymore. She continued writing for films in Hollywood through the 1930s, with writing credits on a total of 21 pictures and acting credits on five.

She died on November 9, 1950 in San Fernando, California.

Filmography

Writer
1940
Girl from Avenue A (play "The Brat")
1936
Song and Dance Man (screenplay)
1933
Broken Dreams (screenplay)
1933
Broadway Bad (screenplay)
1932
Play Girl (adaptation and dialogue)
1931
Safe in Hell (adaptation & dialogue)
1931
The Brat (play) / (screenplay)
1931
The Maltese Falcon (screen play & dialogue)
1931
Command Performance
1931
Other Men's Women (by) / (screen adaptation)
1930
Captain Applejack (screenplay & dialogue)
1930
Scarlet Pages (dialogue - uncredited)
1930
Once a Gentleman (dialogue)
1929
Nix on Dames (screenplay) / (story)
1928
San Francisco Nights (titles)
1927
Salvation Jane (story)
1926
Don Juan (titles - uncredited)
1925
Lady Windermere's Fan (titles by)
1925
Hogan's Alley (titles)
1924
His Hour (titles)
1924
The Humming Bird (play)
1919
The Brat (play)
Actress
1933
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble as
Miss Fern
1929
Nix on Dames as
Stella Foster
1928
Bare Knees as
Bessie
1927
Silk Legs as
Mary McGuire
1927
The Gingham Girl as
Mrs. Trask

References

Maude Fulton Wikipedia


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