Mary McCarthy (not to be confused with another screenwriter—
Mary Eunice McCarthy) was an American
screenwriter active in the 1930s and 1940s.[1]
Biography
Born and raised in
San Francisco,
California, to Irish parents (just like the similarly named screenwriter), McCarthy pursued a career as a schoolteacher in
San Mateo, California, before giving it all up to run a nonprofit sandwich stand. She then became a political activist, stumping the state for the
Democratic Party and going toe-to-toe with the
Ku Klux Klan.[1] Eventually she headed to
Hollywood to pursue a career as a
scenarist in the mid-1930s; her first big credit was on Theodora Goes Wild, a 1936 comedy starring
Irene Dunne.[1]