Bess Meredyth (February 12, 1890 - July 13, 1969) was an award-winning film writer and silent film actress. The wife of the "Casablanca" director Michael Curtiz, Meredyth wrote "The Affairs of Cellini" (1934) and adapted "The Unsuspected" (1947). She was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Wikipedia
Son, with Wilfred Lucas, John Meredyth Lucas. One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) First marriage resulted from a dare after a high school football game. In his memoir, "Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood", her son www.imdb.com/name/nm0580648/
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