Biography
Luci Ward (1907β1969) was an American screenwriter. She mostly worked on crime B movies and Western films. Ward was born and raised in Monroe, Louisiana, the daughter of Edgar Ward and Lucille Pipes. She had a brother, Royce, and two step-siblings from her father's second marriage (her mother died when she was young).
Ward began her career as a secretary to First National executives and screenwriters (including Ben Markson) before becoming a script girl. Later, she got a chance to pen her own scripts. She also wrote articles for publications like Cosmopolitan, sometimes using the pen name Brooks Nevins.She testified at a National Labor Relations Board hearing that she was hired as a stenographer at Warner Brothers for $25 a week and wasn't given a raise when she was promoted to screenwriter. Warner Brothers then hired her a personal secretary at $32.50 a week.She was married to fellow screenwriter Jack Natteford and co-wrote several films with him.
Filmography
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Writer 43
Movies 42
TV Shows 1
The Ride to Hangman's Tree (1967)
The Rifleman (1958)
The Night the World Exploded (1957)
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado (1956)
Rustlers (1949)
The Last Bandit (1949)
Cheyenne Cowboy (1949)
Frontier Revenge (1948)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
Black Bart (1948)
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
Badman's Territory (1946)
The Frozen Ghost (1945)
Sagebrush Heroes (1945)
Cowboy from Lonesome River (1944)
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
Riding West (1944)
Sundown Valley (1944)
Law of the Northwest (1943)
Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943)
The Fighting Buckaroo (1943)
Vengeance of the West (1942)
Bad Men of the Hills (1942)
Lawless Plainsmen (1942)
The Lone Star Vigilantes (1942)
Beyond the Sacramento (1940)
The Kansas Terrors (1939)
The Arizona Kid (1939)
New Frontier (1939)
Colorado Sunset (1939)
Mexicali Rose (1939)
Red River Range (1938)
Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
Man from Music Mountain (1938)
Panamint's Bad Man (1938)
Call The Mesquiteers (1938)
The Cherokee Strip (1937)
Melody for Two (1937)
Mountain Justice (1937)
Land Beyond the Law (1937)
Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
The Law in Her Hands (1936)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1907-11-30
Deathday1969-11-30 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceOuachita Parish, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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