Adele Buffington

Prolific American screenwriter Adele Buffington's official studio biography claimed her birth year as 1900, which would have made her about 13 when she began her career as a stenographer in her hometown of St. Louis, MO, and 16 when she became a... more

Prolific American screenwriter Adele Buffington's official studio biography claimed her birth year as 1900, which would have made her about 13 when she began her career as a stenographer in her hometown of St. Louis, MO, and 16 when she became a reader for producer Thomas H. Ince in California. In the later 1910s, the apparently still teenaged Buffington wrote original screenplays for Fox and Henry C. Rowland before embarking on a long career of churning out low-budget Western scripts. For almost five decades, and using such masculine pseudonyms as Colt Remington and Jess Bowers, Buffington (born Burgdorfer) wrote for almost every cowboy on the celluloid range -- from a young John Wayne to a mature Buck Jones -- with the odd comedy or straight drama thrown in for good measure. One of the busiest screenwriters of her day, Buffington retired after Bullwhip, a 1958 oater starring Guy Madison. She died at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide less