Writer 1886 - 1946

Jeanie Macpherson

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Abbie Jean MacPherson (May 18, 1886 – August 26, 1946) was an American silent actress, writer and director. She is known for her collaborations with directors D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

15 titles

The Devil's Brother

Hal Roach 1933 1h 30m 8.0

Derubati dei loro averi, Stanlio e Ollio decidono di darsi al brigantaggio. Incontrano Fra' Diavolo, il peggior bandito di tutti i tempi, e rischiano di venire impiccati dal brigante.

Madam Satan

Cecil B. DeMille 1930 1h 56m 5.0

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband. But Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections...

The Godless Girl

Cecil B. DeMille 1929 1h 59m

High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.

The King of Kings

Cecil B. DeMille 1927 2h 35m

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster.

The Ten Commandments

Cecil B. DeMille 1923 2h 16m 7.0

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco.

Adam's Rib

Cecil B. DeMille 1923 1h 42m

Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.

Saturday Night

Cecil B. DeMille 1922 1h 30m

Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.

Manslaughter

Cecil B. DeMille 1922 1h 40m

Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.

Forbidden Fruit

Cecil B. DeMille 1921 1h 27m

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers.

Male and Female

Cecil B. DeMille 1919 1h 56m 8.0

Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.

Don't Change Your Husband

Cecil B. DeMille 1919 1h 20m

Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.

The Whispering Chorus

Cecil B. DeMille 1918 1h 26m

John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.