Frederica Sagor Maas dies at 111

Frederica Sagor Maas, one of the last which makes it through screenwriters, otherwise the ultimate, with credits dating back to Hollywood's quiet era, died Thursday in La Mesa, Calif., of natural causes. She was 111. Maas brought for the scripts of 15 films from 1925-28. She was an uncredited reason for the Greta Garbo-John Gilbert classic "Flesh as well as the Demon" also to the Clara Bow starrer "It," but possibly most substantially, she earlier co-modified "The Plastic Age," a 1925 hit film that shown a massive career break for Bow. Maas felt frequently misused with the film industry and detailed her unhappy encounters inside the 1999 memoir "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Author noisy . Hollywood," launched when she was 99. Inside the wake from the wealth of "The Plastic Age," she was signed with a contract at MGM, where she mentioned others needed credit on her behalf work, including "The Waning Sex" her contract wasn't restored. At Tiffany Prods. she came credits on flapper comedies "That Model From Paris" and "The Initial Evening." She married Fox-based producer Ernest Maas in 1927, and they teamed on scripts, but she soon found frustration again. She scripted "Silk Legs" for Fox and labored for Vital on Bow pictures "It," "Red-colored-colored Hair" and "Lula" together with the Louise Brooks film "Folded Tights." But a script they written referred to as "Beefsteak Joe" was, she mentioned, misappropriated making to the Victor Fleming-directed Vital film "The obvious method of All Flesh" (unrelated for the novel of the title), and Maas learned that her career momentum had slowed down lower substantially following a couple returned from the lengthy European vacation. She was credited on Fox's rural comedy "The Farmer's Daughter" but hated employment. The Maases could only get rewrite operate in early 19 thirties. In 1935 "Silk Legs" was remade, within the the spanish language language, by Fox, as well as the couple examined plays for your Hollywood Reporter from 1934-37. They ongoing to produce scripts but tend to not have access to them produced in 1941 she written "Miss Pilgrim's Progress," a sober control over women inside the workplace that offered for just about any song and lastly increased being Fox's 1947 pic "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim," a lighthearted musical comedy vehicle for Betty Grable. The happy couple eventually considered suicide, and Frederica Sagor Maas eventually increased being a coverage insurance provider. In their 1999 book, which film historians consider an important reference on particulars of early Hollywood, she was roughly critical of legendary figures including Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg along with the pervasive sexism and chicanery she frequently experienced on the market. Born in NY City to Russian immigrant parents, Frederica Sagor attended Columbia College, that they was hired away in 1920 by Universal Pictures to become assistant story editor the job involved attending Broadway plays to discover when the material was right for bigscreen adaptation. She gone after Hollywood, eventually, because she preferred to pen scripts herself. Ernest Maas died in 1986 as well as the couple did not have children. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com