Josephine Lovett — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸

Combinations in pictures have come to be very popular within a comparatively recent time, but there is one combination that has enjoyed popularity for a number of years. They are Mr. and Mrs. John S. Robertson, director and scenarist, respectively.

Mrs. Robertson is Josephine Lovett on the screen. She has a long string of successes to her credit, and about all of them have been directed by her husband. She is very ambitious, is Miss Lovett. Despite her success she is not yet satisfied with her work for the screen. Asked what was her greatest picture, she promptly retorted, “I haven’t done it yet.” Which is characteristic of Miss Lovett.

There are few screen writers who have a better foundation in the art than Miss Lovett. She has always been a writer of exceptional merit and she has been well educated in the drama. Miss Lovett was an actress of note before she took up scenario work as a vocation. She knows her drama and dramatic values.

Miss Lovett on the legitimate stage played with some of the leading stars and in worthwhile plays that will long be remembered. She started her career after graduation from Sargent’s Dramatic School in New York, and she then appeared in such plays as Heartsease, with Henry Miller, The Lion and the Mouse, Her Husband’s Wife, Where the Trail Divides, and with Grace George in repertoire.

It was with Famous Players-Lasky that Miss Lovett started her screen work when she wrote the adaptation for “Sentimental Tommy.” In addition to Famous she has written for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inspiration and other companies. Among her other successes are “Footlights,” “The Spanish Jade,” “Tess of the Storm Country,” “Classmates,” “Enchanted Cottage,” “Annie Laurie,” “The Bugle Call,” “The Road to Romance,” “The Ordeal,” and “Soul Fire.”

Miss Lovett is prominently identified with The Writers and the M. P. Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was born in San Francisco, but made her home in New York until she again heard the call of the West, and took up her residence in Los Angeles.

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Josephine Lovett

Scenarist

Adaptations and Continuities with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Recent Releases

• The Road to Romance
• Annie Laurie

The above productions directed by John S. Robertson for M-G-M

Other Releases

• The Enchanted Cottage
• Classmates
• Shore Leave
• Soul Fire
• Just Completed
• The Ordeal

for M-G-M

Collection: Motion Picture News, October 1927 (Booking Guide and Studio Directory)