Sada Cowan was an American screenwriter, author and playwright who's career began during the days of the silent screen. She was the daughter of Elias and Reba Myers Cowan and was born on 18 September, 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was a Boston wholesale jeweler who was born in Melbourne, Australia and had come to America as a young boy with his Dutch parents. Reba Cowan was a native Bostonian.

Besides her film work, Cowan also wrote "The State Forbids: A Play in One Act" (1915) "As I remember You" (1925) "Pomp and Other Plays" (1926), "Napoleon Had it Too" (1929) "Defiance" (1931) and "Bitter Justice" (1943).

Cowan's marriage to Los Angeles doctor Ernest L. Commons in 1929 ended in divorce a few years later.

Sada Cowan died on 31 July, 1943 in Los Angeles where she had lived for most of the latter half of her life.

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Sada Cowan

Writer