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Bess Meredyth

1890 - 1969

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Bess Meredyth (born Helen Elizabeth MacGlashan, February 12, 1890 – July 13, 1969) was a screenwriter and silent film actress. The wife of film director Michael Curtiz, Meredyth wrote The Affairs of Cellini (1934) and adapted The Unsuspected (1947). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bess Meredyth has received more than 107,131 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bess Meredyth is the 5,550th most popular writer (down from 4,805th in 2019), the 9,397th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,646th in 2019) and the 727th most popular American Writer.

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  • 21

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  • 3.25

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bess Meredyth ranks 5,550 out of 5,755Before her are Andy Weir, William Cobbett, Wendela Hebbe, Patricia Wrightson, Ben Shapiro, and Terry Bisson. After her are Javed Akhtar, Mulk Raj Anand, Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Andrew Davies, Malcolm Bradbury, and Eliza Acton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Bess Meredyth ranks 210Before her are Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Ödön Tersztyánszky, Georges Tainturier, Albert Zürner, Lewis H. Brereton, and Samu Fóti. After her are Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez, Angelo Zorzi, Fred M. Vinson, May Allison, Clara Kimball Young, and Frank Forde. Among people deceased in 1969, Bess Meredyth ranks 202Before her are Giorgio Chiavacci, Gaston Strobino, Erkki Kataja, Commodore Cochran, Petras Klimas, and Natalie Talmadge. After her are Zheng Junli, Pauline Bush, Leonard Chess, Cyril Slater, Paul Hawkins, and Barbara Bates.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bess Meredyth ranks 9,397 out of 18,182Before her are Jeannie Pepper (1958), Larry Miller (1953), Mike Kelley (1954), Virginia Christine (1920), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), and Elizabeth Peña (1959). After her are Richie Kotzen (1970), Angus King (1944), James Deen (1986), Robert Byrne (1928), Gray Davis (1942), and Annabeth Gish (1971).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bess Meredyth ranks 727Before her are Lyman Abbott (1835), John Greenleaf Whittier (1807), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Andy Weir (1972), Ben Shapiro (1984), and Terry Bisson (1942). After her are Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818), Peter Gould (1950), Stephen R. Donaldson (1947), Gillian Flynn (1971), James Dickey (1923), and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896).