Biography
Dorothy Yost (April 25, 1899 – June 10, 1967), later married as Dorothy Yost Cummings, was a prominent screenwriter whose career lasted from the silent era well into the sound era. Over her lifetime, she worked on more than 90 films, including her own screenplays. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in Monrovia, California. Before screenwriting, Yost appeared in plays produced by the Scovell Juvenile Stock Company. Yost finished her fourth year of high school before heading to California to begin work for the film industry. In 1917, she was hired as a secretary assisting the scenario editor at Triangle Film Corporation. Just six months after she was hired, she was promoted to the head of reading department, where she reviewed and edited scripts.Yost wrote her first continuity script at the age of 21 in 1920. It was an adaptation of For the Soul of Rafael, based on 1906 novel by Marah Ellis Ryan. Soon enough, in 1927, The Los Angeles Times praised Dorothy Yost as being Hollywood’s youngest and most successful scenarist.By 1927, Yost joined the writing staff of the Film Booking Offices of America Pictures, the same year she married her husband, Dwight Cummings. Cummings was also part of the writing staff and worked with Yost on Fangs of the Wild in 1928.
Filmography
all 49
Movies 49
Writer 48
Screenplay 1
Smoky (1966)
Saginaw Trail (1953)
The Cowboy and the Indians (1949)
The Big Cat (1949)
Loaded Pistols (1948)
The Strawberry Roan (1948)
Smoky (1946)
Thunderhead - Son of Flicka (1945)
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Hullabaloo (1940)
Sporting Blood (1940)
Forty Little Mothers (1940)
Bad Little Angel (1939)
Blackmail (1939)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Four Girls in White (1939)
There Goes the Groom (1937)
Too Many Wives (1937)
Racing Lady (1937)
That Girl from Paris (1936)
M'Liss (1936)
Bunker Bean (1936)
Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Freckles (1935)
Alice Adams (1935)
A Dog of Flanders (1935)
Laddie (1935)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Hello, Everybody! (1933)
What Men Want (1930)
The Sea Bat (1930)
Wallflowers (1928)
Little Mickey Grogan (1927)
Judgement Of The Hills (1927)
Uneasy Payments (1927)
Mother (1927)
Hills of Kentucky (1927)
Kentucky Pride (1925)
Marriage in Transit (1925)
The Hunted Woman (1925)
Broadway or Bust (1924)
Cause for Divorce (1923)
The Footlight Ranger (1923)
The New Teacher (1922)
Little Miss Smiles (1922)
Jackie (1921)
Cinderella of the Hills (1921)
For the Soul of Rafael (1920)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1899-04-25
Deathday1967-06-10 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceSt. Louis, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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