Eleanor Gates

Eleanor Gates

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1875-09-26
Deathday: 1951-03-07 (75 years old)

Biography

From Wikipedia


Eleanor Gates was born on 26 September 1875 in Shakopee,


Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis. She later described her early life in her


novel The Biography of a Prairie Girl. Gates married another playwright,


Richard Walton Tully, in 1901 after they had both completed their studies at


the University of California, Berkeley. Gates had worked initially as a writer


for a newspaper in San Francisco, as well as writing novels. In 1907, one of


her novels was illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Her best known work was the play


The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913. Tully


divorced her in 1914 citing desertion, which Gates admitted.


Before Gates's divorce had been finalized, she married


another divorcé, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, in Paterson, New Jersey, in October


1914. In 1916, they separated when they both realized that they were not


legally married. At the time they both said they intended to remarry when it


could be arranged. Moore later created Book Dealers' Weekly (1925).


At the beginning of 1915, Gates founded the Liberty Feature


Film Company, which was said by Motion Picture News to be the only film company


to be owned and managed by women. The company was led by the wife of an Alaskan


businessman, Sadir Lindblom. In the year that it existed the company created


several two realer films.


The first film, produced in 1917, was The Poor Little Rich


Girl, which starred Mary Pickford. Shirley Temple starred in the 1936 remake of


the same name. The film story, created to cash in on the talents of the


eight-year-old Temple and the rights to the "changing places" story,


was obtained for $40,000 to Gates and an additional $20,000 to Mary Pickford's


company which had made the 1917 film. The new film had made two million dollars


by the end of 1939.


Gates died on 7 March 1951 in Los Angeles County General


Hospital.

Information

Known For
Writing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1875-09-26

Deathday
1951-03-07 (75 years old)

Birth Place
Shakopee, United States

Citizenships
United States

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