Rita Weiman

Born in Philadelphia on February 23, 1885, Rita Weiman grew up in a Quaker community and attended Friends' Central School. She moved to New York intending to work in journalism, and soon built a career that stretched across several forms of writing: newspaper work, plays, fiction, and screenwriting.

She worked at The New York Herald and collaborated with Alice Leal Pollock on The Co-respondent, a play that was later adapted for film. Other stories and plays of hers also made their way to the screen, including Curtain, After the Show, and The Grim Comedian. Through the 1920s and 1930s, she kept one foot in theater and the other in film, while continuing to publish magazine pieces and short fiction.

Weiman later married advertising executive Maurice Marks. She died in Hollywood on June 23, 1954. Today she is remembered as a writer whose career crossed many of the biggest storytelling worlds of her time.