Adele Buffington
Adele Buffington was an American screenwriter of the silent and sound film eras of Hollywood.
Early life
Adele was born in St. Louis to Adolph Burgdorfer and Mary Elizabeth Frederick, both of whom were immigrants from Germany. Before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 16, she worked in a movie theater, where she got to watch countless films. Once she arrived in Los Angeles, she got a job selling tickets at a theater in Hollywood; she worked as a treasurer for several theaters during this time period.Career
Before she was out of her teens, she sold her first screenplay, 1919's L’Apache, which was produced by Thomas Ince for the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation. After being added to the studio's scenario department, she continued to pen silent screenplays throughout the 1920s.She easily transitioned into sound films, and in 1933 would become one of the founding members of the Screen Writers Guild. Over her 40-year career, she accumulated over 100 writing credits. Buffington's specialty was the Western genre, with almost half of her films falling into that category.
From the 1930s through the 1950s, she was one of the busiest writers in Hollywood. She wrote screenplays for most of the well-known Western actors of the period, including Tom Keene in Freighters of Destiny, John Wayne in Haunted Gold, Hoot Gibson in A Man's Land, Buck Jones in 1932's High Speed, Whip Wilson in Range Land, and Tim Holt in Overland Telegraph. She also occasionally wrote comedies for well-known actresses like Lucille Ball.
In the early 1940s, under her pseudonym, Jess Bowers, she wrote two separate Western series. The first was for Buck Jones, who appeared as his character, Buck Roberts, in eight "Rough Riders" films, beginning with Arizona Bound, and finishing with Dawn on the Great Divide in 1942. The second series was with Johnny Mack Brown, for his character Nevada Mackenzie, for which she authored 10 scripts between 1943 and 1945.
Personal life
Buffington married Edward Vore in Los Angeles in 1926. As Adele De Vore, she wrote Fangs of Justice and Tongues of Scandal.Filmography
L'Apache Empty Hearts The Bloodhound The Fighting Cub Love on the Rio Grande That Man Jack! The Cowboy and the Countess The Galloping Cowboy The Test of Donald Norton Blood Will Tell Broadway After Midnight Eager Lips The Broken Mask The Avenging Rider Bare Knees The Chorus Kid Coney Island Devil Dogs Midnight Life The Phantom City- Queen of the Chorus The River Woman Times Square Extravagance Just Like Heaven The Swellhead Aloha Freighters of Destiny Forgotten Women Ghost Valley Haunted Gold A Man's Land Single-Handed Sanders The Iron Master High Speed The Eleventh Commandment West of Singapore Picture Brides Beggar's Holiday When Strangers Meet Cheaters
- Marrying Widows The Moonstone The Hell Cat Hi, Gaucho! Powdersmoke Range The Keeper of the Bees Lady Tubbs The Sheik Steps Out The Duke Comes Back Michael O'Halloran Circus Girl Tenth Avenue Kid Prison Nurse Beauty for the Asking Arizona Bound The Gunman from Bodie Forbidden Trails Below the Border Dawn on the Great Divide Down Texas Way Ghost Town Law Riders of the West West of the Law The Ghost Rider Outlaws of Stampede Pass Six Gun Gospel The Stranger from Pecos The Texas Kid Raiders of the Border Bad Men of the Border Flame of the West Frontier Feud The Lost Trail The Navajo Trail Stranger from Santa Fe Drifting Along Shadows on the Range Wild Beauty Overland Trails The Valiant Hombre Crashing Thru Haunted Trails Shadows of the West Streets of San Francisco West of El Dorado Range Land Riders of the Dusk Western Renegades Arizona Territory Gunslingers Jiggs and Maggie Out West Six Gun Mesa West of Wyoming Overland Telegraph Born to the Saddle Cow Country
- ''Bullwhip''