Marguerite Bertsch
American screenwriter and film director (1889-1967) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 78
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.
Marguerite Bertsch is read about 2 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Harry T. Morey Marguerite wrote My Official Wife (1914)
Anita Stewart Marguerite directed The Glory of Yolanda (1917)
Earle Williams Marguerite wrote My Official Wife and The Call
Edith Storey Marguerite wrote Nothing to Wear and The Call
Rollin S. Sturgeon Directed Captain Alvarez and Through the Wall
Charles Kent Marguerite wrote A Million Bid (1914)
Bobby Connelly Also in Salvation Joan and The Law Decides
John Bunny Marguerite wrote Bunny for the Cause (1913)
Robert Edeson Marguerite wrote The Caveman and Mortmain
Julia Swayne Gordon Marguerite wrote A Million Bid (1914)
Van Dyke Brooke Directed The Vavasour Ball (1914)
George Holt Also in Captain Alvarez and Through the Wall
Sidney Drew Directed A Florida Enchantment (1914)
George D. Baker Directed The Troublesome Step-Daughters (1912)
Tefft Johnson Directed Writing on the Wall (1916)
Charles Wellesley Also in The Diver and Writing on the Wall
L. Rogers Lytton Also in My Official Wife and Shadows of the Past
Naomi Childers Also in The Devil's Prize (1916)
Rose Tapley Also in The Diver and Shadows of the Past
Louise Beaudet Also in My Official Wife and The Law Decides
Theodore Marston Directed Mortmain (1915)
Frederick A. Thomson Directed The Tiger (1913)
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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.
