Top 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsMost Popular Video GamesMost Popular Music VideosMost Popular Podcasts
    Release CalendarBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV NewsIndia TV Spotlight
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsBest Picture WinnersBest Picture WinnersSundance Film FestivalIndependent Spirit AwardsBlack History MonthSXSWSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer? Create account
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
  • Biography
  • Awards
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

Frederica Sagor Maas(1900-2012)

  • Writer
IMDbProStarmeter
See rank
Frederica Sagor Maas was born in America, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Feeling no great desire to complete her course in journalism at Columbia University, New York, she found film an exciting new artistic medium, and was hired by Universal Studios as a story editor, and later MGM as a fully fledged screenwriter. Thus began a bumpy life in the film industry. Maas went from rubbing shoulders with stars such as Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, and Joan Crawford and being at the top of her game with hits like The Plastic Age (1925) to watching several ideas and stories being robbed outright by unscrupulous insiders, to watching dear friends lose their careers in the McCarthy era, and eventually leaving the motion picture industry in the 1950s after a series of crushing disappointments. She married fellow writer and producer Ernest Maas in 1927, and honoured his commitments to the industry long after she realised it would take from them far more than they would take from it. She recounted these adventures in her clear-eyed, frank autobiography, published in 1999 - when she was 99! They say that history is written by the winners, but her story proves that the tales of the also rans can be just as fascinating.
BornJuly 6, 1900
DiedJanuary 5, 2012(111)
BornJuly 6, 1900
DiedJanuary 5, 2012(111)
IMDbProStarmeter
See rank
Add or change photo on IMDbPro

Known for

Betty Grable and Dick Haymes in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
6.4
  • Writer(as Frederica Maas)
  • 1947
Marceline Day in That Model from Paris (1926)
That Model from Paris
7.7
  • Writer(as Frederica Sagor)
  • 1926
Rolled Stockings (1927)
Rolled Stockings
7.4
  • Writer(as Frederica Sagor)
  • 1927
Conrad Nagel and Claire Windsor in Dance Madness (1926)
Dance Madness
  • Writer(as Frederica Sager)
  • 1926

Credits

Edit
IMDbPro

Writer

  • Betty Grable and Dick Haymes in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
    The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
    • (as Frederica Maas)
  • Rosita Moreno and Raul Roulien in Piernas de seda (1935)
    Piernas de seda
    • (as Frederica Sagor)
  • Marjorie Beebe in The Farmer's Daughter (1928)
    The Farmer's Daughter
    • (as Frederica Sagor)
  • Clara Bow and Lane Chandler in Red Hair (1928)
    Red Hair
    • (uncredited)
  • Madge Bellamy in Silk Legs (1927)
    Silk Legs
    • (as Frederica Sagor)
  • Clara Bow in Hula (1927)
    Hula
    • (uncredited)
  • Betsy Ann Hisle, Emil Jannings, and Carmencita Johnson in The Way of All Flesh (1927)
    The Way of All Flesh
    • (uncredited)
  • Rolled Stockings (1927)
    Rolled Stockings
    • (as Frederica Sagor)
  • Dorothy Devore and Bert Lytell in The First Night (1927)
    The First Night
    • (as Frederica Sagor)
  • Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (1926)
    Flesh and the Devil
    • (uncredited)
  • Marceline Day in That Model from Paris (1926)
    That Model from Paris
    • (as Frederica Sagor)
  • Norma Shearer in The Waning Sex (1926)
    The Waning Sex
    • (uncredited)
  • Conrad Nagel and Claire Windsor in Dance Madness (1926)
    Dance Madness
    • (as Frederica Sager)
  • Clara Bow and Donald Keith in The Plastic Age (1925)
    The Plastic Age
    • (as Frederica Sagor)
  • Norma Shearer in His Secretary (1925)
    His Secretary
    • (uncredited)

Personal details

Edit
    • July 6, 1900
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • January 5, 2012
    • La Mesa, California, USA(undisclosed)
    • Ernest MaasAugust 5, 1927 - July 21, 1986 (his death)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 2 Articles

Did you know

Edit
  • Trivia
    In addition to her writing and work in films, Sagor also gained fame for her longevity. She lived to be 111 years old.
  • Quotes
    [on a failed suicide attempt with her husband] We had each other and we were alive.

Related news

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
  • Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • IMDb Developer
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2023 by IMDb.com, Inc.