Marguerite Roberts

Emerging from a modest Nebraska upbringing, she entered the newspaper business in California after a failed pearl-selling venture and soon became a secretary at 20th Century Fox in 1926, selling her first screenplay five years later. By 1933 she had co-written the Raoul Walsh picture Sailor’s Luck and secured a lucrative MGM contract that paid $2,500 weekly, establishing her as one of the era’s hi… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources