# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marguerite-bertsch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:37:56.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marguerite-bertsch"
name: "Marguerite Bertsch"
slug: "marguerite-bertsch"
description: "Marguerite Bertsch was an American screenwriter and film director who worked in the early days of film. Her 1917 text How to Write for Moving Pictures: A Manual of Instruction and Information reflected and influenced the screenwriters of the era. In the early days of film it was not uncommon for \"scenario writers\" to be women and she was among those who, beginning in 1916, also directed films. However, she would later be called one of the \"forgotten women\" of silent film as the non-acting women of early film largely became obscure. Prints of two films that Bertsch had worked on as a screenwriter were rediscovered in the Netherlands, at the Nederlands Filmmuseum. These newly discovered films, The Diver and The Troublesome Step-Daughter, and the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, are currently the only films from Bertsch's career that have been recovered. The rest are presumed to be lost."
tagline: "American screenwriter and film director (1889–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MargueriteBertsch1914.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1889-12-14"
deathDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.1
  momentum:             13.33333333333333
  historical:           7.002232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078442/"
    handle:    "nm0078442"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%B9_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%B9%D8%B4"
    title: "مارگوریٹ برٹش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "مارجويريت بيرتستش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bertsch"
    title: "Marguerite Bertsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bertsch"
    title: "Marguerite Bertsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bertsch"
    title: "Marguerite Bertsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bertsch"
    title: "Marguerite Bertsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bertsch"
    title: "Marguerite Bertsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3290672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1369395"
    title: "Marguerite Bertsch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump