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Marble, Scott (1845?–1919), playwright. A New York native, he began his career at Barnum's Museum in 1865 and continued to perform until the late 1880s, when he turned to playwriting. He specialized in action‐packed melodramas, such as The Police Patrol (1892), The Diamond Breaker (1893), Tennessee's Pardner (1894), The Sidewalks of New York (1895), The Great Train Robbery (1896), The Cotton Spinner (1897), and The Heart of The Klondike (1897). His works, like similar ones by other authors, were rarely played in New York and then only at minor houses. But Marble's plays were produced around the country until around 1910. By then films had usurped the market for his sort of entertainment, so he became one of the earliest writers of film scenarios.

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Scott Marble (1847 – April 5, 1919) was a playwright who wrote the 1896 stage melodrama The Great Train Robbery. Seven years later would become a classic movie Western. His other plays include Tennessee's Pardner (1894), The Sidewalks of New York (1895), The Cotton Spinner (1896), The Heart of the Klondike (1897), Have You Seen Smith? (1898), On Land and Sea (1898), and Daughters of the Poor (1899).

Marble was born in Pennsylvania in 1847.[1] [2] [3] He moved to the Chicago area circa 1878, and worked there as an actor in the 1880s. He and his wife, actress Grace Marble, had four children.[4] He died in New York City.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Census, June 1, 1880, State of Illinois, County of Cook, enumeration district 3, p. 42-C, line 25.
  2. ^ Ancestry.com. Chicago Voter Registration, 1892 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.
  3. ^ U.S. Census, June 1, 1900, State of New York, County of New York, enumeration district 111, p. 1-B, family 10.
  4. ^ U.S. Census, March 15, 1910, State of New York, County of New York, enumeration district 1367, p. 8-B, family 180.

Further reading

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.


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