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Harry M. Vernon
1878–1942
Best remembered for the stage hit Mr. Wu, this early 20th-century playwright and screenwriter moved from Broadway to Hollywood and saw his work adapted for film more than once.
1 Audiobook
Mr. Wu Based on the Play "Mr. Wu" by H. M. Vernon and Harold Owen
by Louise Jordan Miln, Harold Owen, Harry M. Vernon
About the author
Harry Maurice Vernon was an American playwright and screenwriter, also credited as Maurice Vernon and Harry M. Vernon. Available reference sources identify him as born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1880 and dying in Woodland Hills, California, in 1942.
He is most closely associated with Mr. Wu, the play for which he received Broadway credit in 1914. The story went on to have a long afterlife on screen, and film databases continue to link him to several versions of it, including the 1918, 1919, and 1927 adaptations.
Archival records also show that he later worked in the film industry as a screenwriter in the 1930s, with studios including Fox and MGM. Even from these few surviving records, he comes across as a writer whose career bridged popular theater and the early studio era.