Clarence Doty Hobart was a prolific and whimsical writer, scenarist, adapter, and author. Beginning two years before he saw service in the Signal Corps in 1917, and for seven years following the war, Mr. Hobart contributed to 50 movies for 17 studios during the silent era. From October 1929 through March 1931, Mr. Hobart contributed articles to "Radio Digest" magazine and in 1927 published a book, "That's My Hat," subtitled "A Farce in One Act." He wrote or co-wrote three Broadway comedies, "Thoroughbred" [Nov 6, 1933 - Nov 27, 1933], "Every Thursday" [May 10, 1934 - Jul 1934], and with Tom McKnight, "Double Dummy" [Nov 11, 1936 - Dec 1936], staged by Edith Meisner and produced by Mark Hellinger and James R. Ullman. Sometimes writing under C. Doty Hobart, Mr. Hobart's first film credit is for the 1914 Alice Joyce drama, "The Mystery of the Sleeping Death," at the Kalem Company's Hoboken, NJ studios. In 1945, with Raymond Massey, Doty Hobart dusted off and re-worked his script for a biography of Dr. Ephraim McDowell (Nov. 11, 1771 - June 25, 1830) the American physician who was the first to successfully remove an ovarian tumor.) The project never came to fruition.

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Doty Hobart

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