Mary Rider

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

Mary Rider
Born	Mary Kirk Rider November 20, 1876 Pekin, Illinois, USA
Other names	Mary Rider Mechtold
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, playwright, journalist
Years active	1907–1923
Spouse	Reuben Maynard

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)