Elaine Sterne Carrington
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| Born | Elaine Sterne June 14, 1891 New York, New York |
| Died | May 4, 1958 (aged 66) New York, New York |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, playwright, novelist, short story author, radio soap opera writer |
| Language | English |
| Spouse | George Dart Carrington (m. 1920-1945; his death; 2 children) |
Elaine Sterne Carrington (June 14, 1891 – May 4, 1958) was an American screenwriter, playwright, novelist and short story author who found her greatest success writing for radio. Carrington originated radio soap opera in 1932, and wrote more than 12,000 daily dramas during her long career. At one time she wrote three separate shows — Pepper Young's Family, When a Girl Marries and Rosemary — that each ran five times a week.
Elaine Sterne was born in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Marie Louise Henriques and Theodore Sterne, an importer of tobacco. Sterne was educated at Columbia University. In 1920, she married attorney George Dart Carrington, whom she met in grade school. They lived in Brooklyn Heights with children, Patricia and Robert. George died in 1945.
She began writing films in 1913, and her scenario for The Sins of the Mothers (1914) won first prize in a contest sponsored by The New York Evening Sun and Vitagraph Studios. By 1930 she had 50 screenwriting credits — including one for Alibi, the 1929 adaptation of her 1927 Broadway play, Nightstick, which she wrote with J. C. Nugent, Elliott Nugent and John Wray. She also wrote several one-act vaudeville plays including A Good Provider (1928), The Red Hat, Five Minutes from the Station, and Fear.
Elaine Sterne's first published story, "The King of the Christmas Feast," appeared in the December 1914 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine. By the time she was in her 20s her fiction appeared in popular magazines including Collier's, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Magazine, Pictorial Review, Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post and Woman's Home Companion. She also wrote novels, including The Road to Ambition (1917) and The Gypsy Star (1936), and she collected some of her short fiction in the 1939 book, All Things Considered.
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