Ada McQuillan

Ada McQuillan
OccupationScreenwriter

Ada McQuillan was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era.[1] On many of her screenplays, she collaborated with fellow writer Gladys Gordon.

During World War I, McQuillan managed twenty stenographers and clerk, but struggled to find work after the war as she was not a trained stenographer. She re-trained in shorthand, later becoming a scenario editor at Frank Lloyd Productions.[2] Her first major work as a screen writer was Lloyd's The Wise Guy, for which she was wrote what the Los Angeles Evening Citizen News termed "many of the impressive human touches" in the film.[3] The same decade, she wrote with Harvey Thew on a script for Playing Around.[4]

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Institute, American Film (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209695.
  2. ↑ "The shorthand short cut to fame". Collier's:The National Weekly. Vol. 76, no. 10. 5 September 1925. p. 17.
  3. ↑ "Ada McQuillan Writes 'Wise Guy'". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. 1926-07-06. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  4. ↑ "Eddie Nelson has new play in view, with sport motif". The San Francisco Call Bulletin. 1929-02-02. p. 10. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  5. ↑ Ness, Richard (1997-01-01). From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810832916.
  6. ↑ "Palace". The Hartford Courant. 16 Jun 1928. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  7. ↑ Villecco, Tony (2015-11-18). Silent Stars Speak: Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers. McFarland. ISBN 9780786482092.
  8. ↑ Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. ISBN 9780899504940.


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