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Salisbury Field
1878–1936
Best known for lively comedies that jumped from the stage to early Hollywood, this American writer moved easily between novels, plays, journalism, and screen work. His career had a playful, versatile energy that still feels close to the entertainment world taking shape in the early 1900s.
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Cupid's Understudy
by Salisbury Field
About the author
Edward Salisbury Field Jr. (February 28, 1878 – September 20, 1936) was an American author, playwright, artist, poet, and journalist. Reliable sources consistently describe him as a multi-hyphenate writer, and he is especially remembered for popular comic works such as Twin Beds and Wedding Bells.
Beyond books and plays, Field also worked in film during the early sound era. Film databases credit him on projects including Zander the Great, In Gay Madrid, Ladies of the Jury, and His Greatest Gamble, showing how naturally his writing crossed from print and Broadway into Hollywood.
He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and died in California in 1936. Available source material also notes his marriage to Isobel Osbourne, linking him to the extended Robert Louis Stevenson family.