Clay Meredith Greene
American playwright (1850-1933) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 83
Clay Meredith Greene was an American screenwriter, theatre critic and journalist, but he was chiefly known as a dramatist. He was often referred to as either the "first American" or "first white American child" born in San Francisco, a claim spread by Greene himself.
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Siegmund Lubin Produced The Fiancee and the Fairy (1913)
Barry O'Neil Directed The Fortune Hunter (1914)Betty Brice Also in The Fortune Hunter (1914)
Joseph Kaufman Also in The Fortune Hunter (1914)
Ethel Clayton Clay wrote The Fortune Hunter (1914)
Robert Thornby Directed The New South (1916)
Walter Law Also in The Climbers and The Evangelist
Gladys Hanson Also in The Climbers and The Evangelist
Gaston Bell Also in The Fortune Hunter (1914)
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Harry Ashland Greene
Kate Mayhew in the title role of M'liss by Greene and A. Sisson Thompson
David Belasco and Greene in New York in 1887
Clay M. Greene c. 1893
Front cover of 1900 sheet music for Aunt Hannah![Louise Huff as Mrs. Dow and Greene as Mark Dow in the 1914 Lubin Manufacturing Company film Treasures on Earth; Greene wrote the story.[70]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Louise_Huff_and_Clay_M._Greene_in_Treasures_on_Earth.png/1280px-Louise_Huff_and_Clay_M._Greene_in_Treasures_on_Earth.png)
Louise Huff as Mrs. Dow and Greene as Mark Dow in the 1914 Lubin Manufacturing Company film Treasures on Earth; Greene wrote the story.[70]
Actress Helen Greene, Greene's daughterAbout this person
A graduate of Santa Clara University (SCU), Greene was the author of the Passion Play Nazareth which was written for and staged as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of SCU in 1901. The play was performed repeatedly every three years at SCU during Greene's lifetime.
