Colin Clements

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1894, Colin Campbell Clements became a writer whose career stretched across theater, fiction, and film. Nebraska Authors identifies him as a playwright and Broadway actor, and notes that he was known for Harriet, a Broadway play starring Helen Hayes as Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Information available from IMDb adds a fuller picture of an unusually varied early life. It says he studied at the University of Washington, later attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and spent time in Turkey with Near East Relief assisting Armenian refugees. His early books included The Touchstone and Other Plays and Seven Plays of Old Japan, showing how quickly he established himself as a dramatist.

Clements is especially remembered for his long creative partnership with Florence Ryerson, whom he married in 1928. According to IMDb, the pair went on to write novels, short stories, monologues, and a large number of plays and screenplays together. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 29, 1948.