Jean Bart (writer)
Jean Bart | |
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| Born | Marie Antoinette Vilardell c.1876 France |
| Died | March 6, 1955 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Marie Sarlabous, Marie de Sarlabous |
| Occupations | Scenarist and playwright |
| Years active | 1915 - 1945 |
| Known for | The Squall |
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| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Joseph Fields (son-in-law) |
Jean Bart (c.1876 – 1955; pseudonym of Marie Antoinette Sarlabous) was a French-born American playwright and screenwriter. She began writing silent film scenarios under her married name in 1915, but after America entered the Great War she adopted as a pen name that of the French naval hero, Jean Bart. Her greatest success came with the long-running Broadway melodrama, The Squall (1926). She had two other plays produced on Broadway by 1932, and continued writing scenarios and screenplays up through 1945.