Mary Rider (sometimes credited as Mary Rider Mechtold) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and short story writer active primarily during the 1910s.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Mary was born in Illinois to judge George Rider and his wife, Elizabeth Prettyman, in Pekin, Illinois. Later on, she attended the Chicago University.^[3]

She began to write plays^[4] as well as short stories^[5] during the 1910s that appeared in publications like Sunset,^[6] Metropolitan,^[7] and Munsey's Magazine.^[8] She also wrote for vaudeville before writing stories for the screen during Hollywood's silent era.^[9] One of her earliest stories to hit the screen was 1914's The Mountain Rat.^[10] Over the next few years, she would go on to write a dozen or so shorts and features.

She married Reuben Maynard in New York City in 1916. The couple had no children.

Selected filmography

• Sunshine Alley (1917)
• Behind the Lines (1916)
• The Snowbird (1916)
• Gladiola (1915)
• The Way Back (1915)
• The Mountain Girl (1915) (short)
• Indiscretion (1915) (short)
• At the Stroke of the Angelus (1915) (short)
• Killed Against Orders (1915) (short)
• Ashes of the Past (1914) (short)
• The Temple of Moloch (1914) (short)
• The Old Derelict (1914) (short)
• The Mountain Rat (1914) (short)

References