One response to “A weekly payroll report from 1926 showing the salaries for the MGM writers.”

1. Jean Hunter says:

   February 4, 2016 at 8:53 pm

   Wow, look at those salaries – for 1926, that’s some darn good piece of change!

   Wonder if Katharine Hilliker and H. H. Caldwell split that $650.00 and if H. H. was another female writer ?

   Sylvia Thalberg was Irving’s sister. According to her IMDb page, she worked at MGM from 1927-1933. Hmmm…she’s on the 1926 writer’s payroll at a paltry 35 bucks a week.

   Here’s info on Dorothy Farnum who’s the first $1000 per week writer on this list and female to boot. Further down the article are links to more female screenwriters.

   https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-dorothy-farnum/

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