Winchell Smith — Who’s Who (1920) 🇺🇸

Winchell Smith, Metro dramatist, was born in Hartford, Conn.

His first job was that of assistant property man at the age of eighteen. Not long after he became stage director but there was no soothing the fever to become an actor and three years later Mr. Smith played his first small part in The Prodigal Daughter.

Twelve years later he discovered that he was gifted with the ability to write an easy flow of dialogue and promptly began his career as a dramatist. He dramatized Brewster’s Millions. Then he wrote The Fortune Hunter, The Boomerang, Turn to the Right, and Lightnin’, sensational Broadway successes.

Mr. Smith’s home is in Farmington, Conn., in the same hilly country where he spent his boyhood days.

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