Luci Ward
American screenwriter
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Luci Ward (1907–1969) was an American screenwriter.[1] She mostly worked on crime B movies and Western films.
November 30, 1907
Luci Ward | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lucille Ward November 30, 1907 Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, US |
| Died | November 30, 1969 (aged 62) Los Angeles, California, US |
| Other names | Brooks Nevins |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1936–1967 |
| Spouse | Jack Natteford |
Biography
Ward was born and raised in Monroe, Louisiana, the daughter of Edgar Ward and Lucille Pipes. She had a brother, Royce, and two step-siblings from her father's second marriage (her mother died when she was young).
Ward began her career as a secretary to First National executives[2] and screenwriters (including Ben Markson)[3] before becoming a script girl.[4] Later, she got a chance to pen her own scripts. She also wrote articles for publications like Cosmopolitan, sometimes using the pen name Brooks Nevins.[5]
She testified at a National Labor Relations Board hearing that she was hired as a stenographer at Warner Brothers for $25 a week and wasn't given a raise when she was promoted to screenwriter. Warner Brothers then hired her a personal secretary at $32.50 a week.[6]
She was married to fellow screenwriter Jack Natteford and co-wrote several films with him.[7]
Selected filmography
- Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
- Mountain Justice (1937)
- Melody for Two (1937)
- Call the Mesquiteers (1938)
- Red River Range (1938)
- The Kansas Terrors (1939)
- The Arizona Kid (1939)
- Beyond the Sacramento (1940)
- Bad Men of the Hills (1942)
- The Fighting Buckaroo (1943)
- Law of the Northwest (1943)
- Riding West (1944)
- Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
- Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
- Return of the Bad Men (1948)
- Rustlers (1949)
- Ride To Hangman's Tree (1967)
