{{short description|American screenwriter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Mildred Considine | image = Mildred Considine (1887–1933).png | caption = In the ''Dramatic Mirror'', February 9, 1918 | birth_name = Agnes Mildred Considine | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|6|16}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|11|15|1887|6|16}} | death_place = Chicago, Illinois, US | death_cause = | occupation = Screenwriter | spouse = Archie Cherrill | parents = John Considine | relatives = John Considine Jr. (half-brother)<br>Tim Considine (nephew)<br>John Considine (nephew) }}
'''Mildred Considine''' (1887–1933) was an American screenwriter and actress active during Hollywood's silent era.
== Biography ==
=== Origins === Mildred was born in Chicago to John Considine (a big-time vaudeville promoter and theater manager who attracted a fair amount of controversies in his day) and Julia Nussbaumer.<ref name=Ancestry>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/inst/discoveries/PfRecord?emailId=N-58ec3bb6-170b-4508-ae06-edf10b15b304&collectionId=2542&recordId=1542714&ahsht=2024-07-25%2018:00:06&language=&ahsh=b68e40dcf8364e995a40a5f793f84fb0 |title=Mrs. Mildred Considine Cherrell |work=Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916–1947 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240725-180219/https://www.ancestry.com/inst/discoveries/PfRecord?emailId=N-58ec3bb6-170b-4508-ae06-edf10b15b304&collectionId=2542&recordId=1542714&ahsht=2024-07-25%2018:00:06&language=&ahsh=b68e40dcf8364e995a40a5f793f84fb0 |archive-date=2024-07-25 |url-status=live |access-date=2024-07-25 |via=Ancestry.com}}</ref>
Her parents divorced when she was young after her mother found out that her father—who spent a good deal of time working in Seattle—had taken up with another woman.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-seattle-post-intelligencer-1892-con/35608326/ |title=Done in the Courts |date=6 Oct 1892 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |page=5 |access-date=2024-07-25}}</ref> She spent most of her childhood with her mother and stepfather in Chicago, where she later attended the Academy of Fine Arts.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Are Hollywood Scenario Writers Lucky?|url=https://mk86.net/img/palp/pl3/10.pdf|journal=Screenland}}</ref>
=== Theatrical career === Given her family's vaudeville background, it was not surprising Mildred was writing and performing at venues in Chicago and around the country from a young age. Her work began to attract notice, and in 1913, she sued her father for {{USD|100000}}, alleging that he was interfering with booking agents at theaters around the country to prevent her from being booked.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-st-louis-star-and-times-daughter-su/152527426/ |title=Daughter Sues Her Father for $100,000, Charging Conspiracy |date=11 Apr 1913 |page=2 |newspaper=St. Louis Star |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |access-date=2024-08-02 |place=Chicago}}</ref>
=== Hollywood ambitions === Mildred been writing scenarios since she was 15, and had acted in a number of Essanay shorts as a teenager. By 1917, she had been hired by Constance Talmadge as a scenario editor. That same year, her first scripts, ''Panthea'' and ''Framing Framers'', were produced and released.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-journal-stage-and-screen/152527513/ |title=Stage and Screen |date=22 Oct 1917 |page=11 |newspaper=The Mansfield News |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |access-date=2024-08-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oregon-daily-journal-stage-and-scree/152527630/ |title=Stage and Screen |first=Edna |last=Irvine |date=29 Oct 1917 |page=6 |newspaper=The Oregon Daily Journal |publication-place=Portland |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |access-date=2024-08-02}}</ref> She later wrote for Anita Stewart<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-seattle-star-mildred-considine-seat/152527679/ |title=Mildred Considine, Seattle Girl, Now Writing Scenarios |date=March 8, 1919 |page=3 |newspaper=The Seattle Star |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |access-date=2024-08-02}}</ref> and Mary Pickford,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wichita-eagle-mildred-constantine/152527907/ |title=Mildred Constantine |date=May 23, 1919 |page=8 |newspaper=The Wichita Daily Eagle |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |access-date=2024-08-02}}</ref> although her relationship with the latter star would turn sour in 1921 when Mildred alleged that Pickford had ripped off one of her scripts in ''Through the Back Door'' and not given proper credit.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-point-in-suit-lost/152527983/ |title=Point in Suit Lost by Mrs. Fairbanks |date=September 9, 1921 |page=26 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |via=Newspapers.com |language=en |access-date=2024-08-02}}</ref> She would also sue Zelda Sears on similar grounds.
=== Death === She died in Chicago, Illinois on November 15, 1933, aged 46.<ref name=Ancestry/>
=== Relatives === Her half brother, John Considine Jr., would end up being a film producer; his sons, Tim and John, forged successful careers for themselves as actors.
== Selected filmography == * ''Panthea'' (1917) * ''Framing Framers'' (1917) * ''The Ghosts of Yesterday'' (1918) * ''A Romance of the Underworld'' (1918) * ''All Wrong'' (1919) * ''Under Suspicion'' (1919) * ''Let's Be Fashionable'' (1920) * ''The Girl of My Heart'' (1920) * ''Hearts and Masks'' (1921) * ''The Bride's Play'' (1922) * ''The Dangerous Little Demon'' (1922) * ''The Real Adventure'' (1922) * ''Heroes of the Street'' (1922)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Considine, Mildred}} Category:American women screenwriters Category:1887 births Category:1933 deaths Category:Screenwriters from Illinois Category:20th-century American women writers Category:20th-century American screenwriters