Nagene Searle(1898-1995)
- Script and Continuity Department
- Writer
Genevieve B. Searle, was born June 23, 1898, in Chicago, Illinois, to Robinson Prudden Searle and Marie Antoinette Baxter. Genevieve had one brother, Edward Baxter Searle (1890-1952).
In 1900, the family was enumerated in Chicago, Illinois, and, by 1910, the family had moved to Webb County, Texas.
Giving their residences as Toledo, Ohio, Genevieve Searle and her first husband, Parke Meredith Detweiler (1892-1948), son of Charles Parke Detweiler and Leila Mariah Smith, married on July 25, 1914, in Monroe, Michigan, but later divorced.
Genevieve married her second husband, Edwin Jackson (1898-1972), son of Merwin S. H. Jackson and Anna E. Roberts, on December 17, 1923, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and they, too, divorced. [Note: Edwin Jackson's second wife, actress Helen Marie Hayes (1893-c.1932), was the first wife of actor Edmund Fessenden Cobb (1892-1974).]
In late December 1929 and in January 1930, multiple newspapers from California to New York carried nearly identical articles on Genevieve Searle, accompanied by her photograph. One of these articles appeared in the "Schenectady Gazette," 15 Jan 1930, 34:92, page 11, columns 1-3 ("News of Stageland and the Movies: Toledo Society Girl Wins Contract as a Writer of Scenarios"), touching on Genevieve Searle's family background and chronicling briefly how she had quit high school to write, worked as a stenographer, spent time on a ranch, and found work as a script clerk. The article went on to report that, in late 1929, after changing her name to "Nagene" on the advice of a numerologist, one of her stories was finally accepted by a magazine, at which point her career started to take off. A Hollywood director named James Cruze soon signed her to a lucrative contract as a scenario writer in December 1929.
Nagene Searle has multiple credits on IMDb as a script and scenario writer and as a script supervisor.
Nagene Searle died 31 May 1995, in Los Angeles County, California.
In 1900, the family was enumerated in Chicago, Illinois, and, by 1910, the family had moved to Webb County, Texas.
Giving their residences as Toledo, Ohio, Genevieve Searle and her first husband, Parke Meredith Detweiler (1892-1948), son of Charles Parke Detweiler and Leila Mariah Smith, married on July 25, 1914, in Monroe, Michigan, but later divorced.
Genevieve married her second husband, Edwin Jackson (1898-1972), son of Merwin S. H. Jackson and Anna E. Roberts, on December 17, 1923, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and they, too, divorced. [Note: Edwin Jackson's second wife, actress Helen Marie Hayes (1893-c.1932), was the first wife of actor Edmund Fessenden Cobb (1892-1974).]
In late December 1929 and in January 1930, multiple newspapers from California to New York carried nearly identical articles on Genevieve Searle, accompanied by her photograph. One of these articles appeared in the "Schenectady Gazette," 15 Jan 1930, 34:92, page 11, columns 1-3 ("News of Stageland and the Movies: Toledo Society Girl Wins Contract as a Writer of Scenarios"), touching on Genevieve Searle's family background and chronicling briefly how she had quit high school to write, worked as a stenographer, spent time on a ranch, and found work as a script clerk. The article went on to report that, in late 1929, after changing her name to "Nagene" on the advice of a numerologist, one of her stories was finally accepted by a magazine, at which point her career started to take off. A Hollywood director named James Cruze soon signed her to a lucrative contract as a scenario writer in December 1929.
Nagene Searle has multiple credits on IMDb as a script and scenario writer and as a script supervisor.
Nagene Searle died 31 May 1995, in Los Angeles County, California.
