Hope Loring

{{Short description|English screenwriter (1894–1959)}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Hope Loring | image = Hope Loring - Jun 1919 MPW.jpg | caption = ''Moving Picture World'', 1919 | birth_date = 29 January 1894 | birth_place = England | death_date = {{death date and age|1959|01|17|1894|01|29|df=y}} | death_place = Majorca, Spain | years_active = 1918–1931 | spouse = Louis D. Lighton | relatives = Jane Loring | occupation = Screenwriter }}

'''Hope Loring''' (29 January 1894 – 17 January 1959) was an English screenwriter.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tibbetts |first=John |date=23 July 2010 |title=American Classic Screen Interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V-MwbvCRnFcC&q=hope+loring+screenwriter |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=93 |isbn=978-0810876750 |access-date=24 April 2015 }}</ref> She wrote for 63 films between 1918 and 1931.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-hope-loring/ | title=Hope Loring | work=Women Film Pioneers Project | publisher=Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries | first=Annie | last=Berke | date=27 September 2013 | access-date=30 October 2016}}</ref> She was born in England and died in Majorca, Spain. She was married to fellow screenwriter and producer Louis D. Lighton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-hope-loring/| title=Hope Loring|publisher=Women Film Pioneers Project|accessdate=2023-03-28}}</ref> She also directed the play ''Caprice'' at Harold Lloyd's Beverly Hills Little Theatre for Professionals.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dumont |first=Hervé |url=http://archive.org/details/frankborzagelife0000dumo |title=Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland |others= |isbn=978-0-7864-2187-9 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |pages=400}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''The Lure of the Circus'' (1918) * ''The Red Glove'' (1919) * ''Wolf Tracks'' (1920) * ''Masked'' (1920) * ''Thieves' Clothes'' (1920) * ''The Vanishing Dagger'' (1920) * ''The Blue Fox'' (1921) * ''Thorns and Orange Blossoms'' (1922) * ''Paid Back'' (1922) * ''Don't Marry for Money'' (1923) * ''The Woman of Bronze'' (1923) * ''East Side - West Side'' (1923) * ''K – The Unknown'' (1924) * ''The Lullaby'' (1924) * ''Cornered'' (1924) * ''Little Annie Rooney'' (1925) * ''Ranger of the Big Pines'' (1925) * ''Wandering Footsteps'' (1925) * ''The Crown of Lies'' (1926) * ''The Blind Goddess'' (1926) * ''Fig Leaves'' (1926) * ''It'' (1927) * ''Children of Divorce'' (1927) * ''Wings'' (1927) * ''The Woman on Trial'' (1927) * ''Get Your Man'' (1927) * ''The Showdown'' (1928) * ''The Four Feathers'' (1929) * ''Paris'' (1929) * ''This Is Heaven'' (1929) {{div col end}}

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==External links== {{commons category|Hope Loring}} *{{IMDb name|id=0521002|name=Hope Loring}} *[https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-hope-loring/ Hope Loring] at the Women Film Pioneers Project

{{DEFAULTSORT:Loring, Hope}} Category:1894 births Category:1959 deaths Category:English women screenwriters Category:Women film pioneers Category:20th-century English screenwriters