AN ELLA WHEELER WILCOX BIBLIOGRAPHY
by Richard A. Edwards, c1997-2000.
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    "The Primary object of this introductory volume is to bring to the notice of those hundreds of thousands of people who daily visit cinemas the poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who is, undoubtedly, the most popular poet of the day.  The first six poems given in this volume [A Married Coquette; Lais When Young; Divorced; Angel or Demon; Meg's Curse; Lord, Speak Again] are now being shown on the films, and to emphasise their appeal we cannot do better than quote from the words of the producer, who says: 'Film stories are written by the thousand, but adaptation from works so dramatic and yet so fine in sentiment as those of Ella Wheeler Wilcox are rare.  Her stories and poems are known throughout the English-speaking world, and there are very few writers of to-day who can touch the heart-strings of the people and yet appeal to healthy sentiment without descending to the commonplace or banal.'"  June 1919From Cinema poems and others by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. London : Gay and Hancock, 1919. 

Films in title order: 
Angel or Demon

   "The first six poems given in this volume [A Married Coquette; Lais When Young; Divorced; Angel or Demon; Meg's Curse; Lord, Speak Again] are now being shown on the films..."  June 1919.
From Cinema poems and others by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. London : Gay and Hancock, 1919.


The Beautiful Lie (1917)
Directed by John W. Noble
Writing credits June Mathis (scenario) and Ella Wheeler Wilcox (poem "Reveries of a Station House")
Cast (in credits order)
Frances Nelson as Louise Joyce
Harry Northrup as MortimerGrierson (as Harry S. Northrup)
Edward Earle as Paul Vivian
Elsie MacLeod as The Other Girl
Sally Crute as Mary
John Davidson as Howard Hayes
Mrs. Allen Walker as Mrs. Joyce
Emile Collins as Butler
Cinematography by Herbert Oswald Carleton (as Herbert O. Carleton)
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Silent 

The Belle of the Season (Metro, 1919)
Directed by S. Rankin Drew
Writing credits S. Rankin Drew and Ella Wheeler Wilcox (poem)
Cast (in credits order)
Emmy Wehlen as Geraldine Keen
S. Rankin Drew as James Alden
Walter Hitchcock as Clifton Brophy
John Mackin as Labor Leader Stedman
Louis Wolheim as Johnson
Produced by B.A. Rolfe
The film was released in five reels, July 28, 1919.
Divorced

   "The first six poems given in this volume [A Married Coquette; Lais When Young; Divorced; Angel or Demon; Meg's Curse; Lord, Speak Again] are now being shown on the films..."  June 1919.
From Cinema poems and others by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. London : Gay and Hancock, 1919. 

Lais When Young

   Released through Standard Film Service; Photo-play of this poem will be presented at New Lyric Theatre, Friday, 2, 1917. Poem is "Lais When Young".
   "The first six poems given in this volume [A Married Coquette; Lais When Young; Divorced; Angel or Demon; Meg's Curse; Lord, Speak Again] are now being shown on the films..."  June 1919.
From Cinema poems and others by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. London : Gay and Hancock, 1919.

Lord, Speak Again

   "The first six poems given in this volume [A Married Coquette; Lais When Young; Divorced; Angel or Demon; Meg's Curse; Lord, Speak Again] are now being shown on the films..."  June 1919.
From Cinema poems and others by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. London : Gay and Hancock, 1919. 


A Married Coquette (1917) (poem)

"I hear that one of my Moving Picture Plays, "A Married Coquette", is running at a Broadway Theatre. My experience with the business of Moving Pictures has so far been disappointing and irritating. But my Manager still declares there are great things ahead for me." From a letter to her brother Marcus, April 27, 1917. 

Meg's Curse

   "The first six poems given in this volume [A Married Coquette; Lais When Young; Divorced; Angel or Demon; Meg's Curse; Lord, Speak Again] are now being shown on the films..."  June 1919.
From Cinema poems and others by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. London : Gay and Hancock, 1919.

Passions Inherited (1917)
Directed by Gilbert P. Hamilton
Writing credits Ella Wheeler Wilcox  (poem)
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Silent

The Price He Paid (1914)
Directed by Lawrence B. McGill
Writing credits Ella Wheeler Wilcox  (poem)
Credited cast overview:
Thomas V. Emery as Charlie Duke
Reeva Greenwood as Patrice
Philip Hahn as Richard
Edith Hinckle as Mrs. Lyons
Julia Hurley as Granny
Gertrude Shipman as Lucie, Hahn's wife
Jack Standing as The doctor
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Silent
"On Monday, Dec. 7th., the moving pictures of "Summer Days with Ella Wheeler Wilcox" and the photo play of my poem, "The Price He paid" will open in one of the New York Theatres, I belive it is the New York. I loathe the play. It was written by a man famous in the photo play field by my poem was quite lost sight of in the thing he constructed.  However the Warner Features people who have it in hand, think it is going to be a great money maker and hereafter I will, at least, oversee my scenarios, before they are put into films. It was shown at The Globe Theatre last month to the bookers, and I rather dread seeing it again, so I am not going to stay over for it but hurrying home to my three "H's", Husband, Home and Harp." From a letter from Ella to Elsa, December 1, 1914.
  
Summer Days with Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1914)
"On Monday, Dec. 7th., the moving pictures of "Summer Days with Ella Wheeler Wilcox" and the photo play of my poem, "The Price He paid" will open in one of the New York Theatres, I belive it is the New York. I loathe the play. It was written by a man famous in the photo play field by my poem was quite lost sight of in the thing he constructed.  However the Warner Features people who have it in hand, think it is going to be a great money maker and hereafter I will, at least, oversee my scenarios, before they are put into films. It was shown at The Globe Theatre last month to the bookers, and I rather dread seeing it again, so I am not going to stay over for it but hurrying home to my three "H's", Husband, Home and Harp." From a letter from Ella to Elsa, December 1, 1914.

Miscellaneous information:

Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Texas Theatre, [n.d.]
Notes: a small playbill booklet of "Poems in Photoplay Form" to be shown
at the Texas Theatre.  Booklet contains six poems and their playdates (but not the year).
Mentions: Lais when Young, A Married Coquette, Angel or Demon, Lord Speak Again, Divorced, and Meg's Curse.

The Theatre Magazine (May 1902)
With mentions of/and or letters of Joe Jefferson, E. M. Holland, Julia Marlowe, Wm Bispham, Wilton Lackaye, A. M. Palmer, Kyrle Belew, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, De Wolf Hopper, Reg De Koven, Otis Skinner, James Metcalfe, John Malone, Edward Fales Coward, Alfred Ayres, Henry Tyrell, Eugene Presbrey

The Theatre Magazine (September 1905)
Articles with mention of The New Theatrical Season of 1905-06, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, et al.

The Theatre Magazine (October 1906)
Chicago with Ed Peple, Olive May, Odette Taylor, Wm Courtenay, Frank Roberts, Herb Ayling, Liz Kennedy, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Wm Bramwell, Ketherine Grey

Motion Picture Story Magazine (May 1911)
Magazine with photos of Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Margaret E, Sangster.

Moving Picture World (1/18/13) "At the Sign of the Flaming Arcs" Column by Geo Blaisdell with mention of Pilot’s “The Two Classes” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ray Physioc, Sol Lesser, Kalem; Gene Gautier Players.

Moving Picture Star photoplay. (January 1, 1915)
"Moving Picutre Stories with cover photo of still from Victor's "The Accusation."
MENTIONS of … Ella Wheeler Wilcox..."

Motion Picture Magazine (May 1915)
MENTIONS of Mary Carolyn Davies, Stokely Fisher, Lillian Walker, Lottie Briscoe, Kate Price, Flora Finch, Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Theatre Magazine (July 1926)
"On The London Stage" by St. John Ervine.
Edgar Wallace, Miles Malleson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Lord Bellingdon, Sir Ronald Clive, T. C. Murray, Molly Hurling, Sean O’Casey, Chekhov and Marlow, Massine and Nemtchinova, Nigel Playfair, Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd.

Films in Review (Febuary 1969)
MENTIONS of Len Douglas Ownes, Arnold Genthe, Chas Hall, Minnie Hall, Wes De Lappe, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Hazel Tharsing, Carlotta Monterey, Dr. Millicent Cosgrave, Robert Pike, Bob Leonard, Mae Murray, Gertrude Olmstead, Lois Weber, Frank Borzage, Tsuri Aoki, Sessue Hayakawa, Sid Franklin, Elsie Janis, Frank Garbutt, Allan Dwan, Glenn Martin, Alice Brady, Muriel Ostriche, Elda Furry, Hedda Hopper, Clara Kimball Young, Marie Dressler, Wm Brady, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Fred Thomson, Mary Miles Minter, Bob Vignola, Lefty Flynn, Joe Kennedy, Marion Jackson, Frank Clifton, Anna May Wong, Sam Goldwyn, Gary Cooper, Polly Moran, Max Reinhardt, Barbara Hutton, Elsa Maxwell, Errol Flynn, Peter Ustinov, Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, Chas Boyer.

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