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name: "Dorothy Yost"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "25 April 1899"
died: "10 June 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T00:23:37.973842+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dorothy Yost

Writer. Born 25 April 1899 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 10 June 1967.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 25 April 1899, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 10 June 1967
- **Active:** 1934–1941
- **Frequently works with:** [Pandro S. Berman](https://film.one/person/pandro-s-berman.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 79 (2), 1940s 58 (1)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Romance 3, Drama 2, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Yost, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1250361, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/196125

## Biography

Dorothy Yost was an American screenwriter whose career spanned the silent era into the sound period. Born on 25 April 1899 in St. Louis, Missouri, she began working in the film industry in 1917 as a secretary at the Triangle Film Corporation and was soon promoted to head of the reading department. Her first continuity script credit came in 1920.

She wrote or adapted more than ninety films. Yost co-wrote the screenplay for *The Gay Divorcee* (1934) and contributed to other Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals including *Roberta* (1935), *Swing Time* (1936) and *The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle* (1939). She also worked on *Alice Adams* (1935). In 1927 she married writer Dwight Cummings, with whom she collaborated on several scripts. Yost died on 10 June 1967 in Monrovia, California.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, scriptmag.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Fi1m 58, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)
- *Alice Adams* (1935), Fi1m 79, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/alice-adams.md)
- *The Gay Divorcee* (1934), Fi1m 79, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-gay-divorcee.md)

## Complete filmography (64)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Smoky* (1966), Screenplay
- *Saginaw Trail* (1953), Writer
- *The Cowboy and the Indians* (1949), Writer
- *The Big Cat* (1949), Screenplay
- *Loaded Pistols* (1948), Story, Screenplay
- *The Strawberry Roan* (1948), Screenplay
- *Smoky* (1946), Screenplay
- *Thunderhead: Son of Flicka* (1945), Screenplay
- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)
- *Sporting Blood* (1940), Screenplay
- *Forty Little Mothers* (1940), Screenplay
- *Bad Little Angel* (1939), Screenplay
- *Blackmail* (1939), Story
- *The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle* (1939), Adaptation
- *Four Girls in White* (1939), Screenplay
- *There Goes the Groom* (1937), Screenplay
- *Too Many Wives* (1937), Writer
- *Racing Lady* (1937), Screenplay
- *That Girl from Paris* (1936), Screenplay
- *M'Liss* (1936), Screenplay
- *Bunker Bean* (1936), Screenplay
- *Murder on a Bridle Path* (1936), Screenplay
- *Alice Adams* (1935), Screenplay — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/alice-adams.md)
- *A Dog of Flanders* (1935), Adaptation
- *Laddie* (1935), Screenplay
- *The Gay Divorcee* (1934), Screenplay — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/the-gay-divorcee.md)
- *Hello, Everybody!* (1933), Screenplay
- *What Men Want* (1930), Screenplay, Adaptation
- *The Sea Bat* (1930), Story
- *The Little Yellow House* (1928), Writer
- *The Devil's Trademark* (1928), Writer
- *Freckles* (1928), Adaptation
- *Wallflowers* (1928), Writer
- *Fangs of the Wild* (1928), Story
- *Little Mickey Grogan* (1927), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *The Harvester* (1927), Writer
- *Judgement Of The Hills* (1927), Screenplay, Adaptation
- *Uneasy Payments* (1927), Writer
- *Mother* (1927), Screenplay
- *Hills of Kentucky* (1927), Story
- *Wings of the Storm* (1926), Scenario Writer
- *Kentucky Pride* (1925), Screenplay
- *She Wolves* (1925), Writer
- *Marriage in Transit* (1925), Scenario Writer
- *The Hunted Woman* (1925), Writer
- *The Star Dust Trail* (1924), Scenario Writer
- *My Husband's Wives* (1924), Writer
- *Romance Ranch* (1924), Writer
- *Broadway or Bust* (1924), Writer
- *Traffic in Hearts* (1924), Story
- *Kentucky Days* (1923), Writer
- *Cause for Divorce* (1923), Writer
- *The Footlight Ranger* (1923), Writer
- *Youth Must Have Love* (1922), Screenplay
- *The New Teacher* (1922), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Little Miss Smiles* (1922), Scenario Writer
- *Jackie* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *Cinderella of the Hills* (1921), Screenplay
- *Queenie* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *Ever Since Eve* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *One Man in a Million* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *For the Soul of Rafael* (1920), Scenario Writer, Writer
- *Smoldering Embers* (1920), Writer
- *Flames of the Flesh* (1920), Scenario Writer

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