Nan Blair
American screenwriter
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| Intro | American screenwriter | |
| A.K.A. | Clyte May Cosper | |
| A.K.A. | Clyte May Cosper | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Screenwriter | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | |
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| Birth | 1895, Oregon, United States of America | |
| Death | 1944Los Angeles, United States of America (aged 49 years) |
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Biography
Nan Blair (born Clyte Cosper; 1895–1944) was an American screenwriter active primarily during Hollywood's silent era.
Around the time her first husband, Joseph Elizalde, died in Santa Barbara in 1917, she began writing screenplays in Hollywood.
By 1918, Blair headed up the script-reading department at Triangle Pictures, where she worked on shorts like A Dream of Egypt and A Prince for a Day. She later headed Palmer Photoplays' manuscript sales department.
Her last known credit was on 1935's This Is the Life; she died in Los Angeles in 1944.
Selected filmography
- This Is the Life (1935)
- The Love Trap (1923)
- Beach of Dreams (1921)
- The Fatal Wallop (1920)
- The Hawk's Trail (1919)
- Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919)
- Trail of No Return (1918) (short)
- Little Mariana's Triumph (1917) (short)
- A Prince for a Day (1917) (short)
- A Dream of Egypt (1917) (short)