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name: "John Emerson"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "29 May 1874"
died: "7 March 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:20:02.270999+00:00"
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# John Emerson

Producer. Born 29 May 1874 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. Died 7 March 1956.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 29 May 1874, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 7 March 1956
- **Also known as:** Clifton Paden, جون إيمرسون
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Emerson_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809247, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256221/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/254114

## Biography

John Emerson (born Clifton Paden; 29 May 1874 – 7 March 1956) was an American writer, director, producer and stage actor. Born in Sandusky, Ohio, he began his career performing and directing on Broadway before entering silent films around 1912.

He directed and wrote a series of comedies for Douglas Fairbanks and collaborated extensively with his wife, the screenwriter Anita Loos, whom he married in 1919. The pair worked jointly on scenarios and later as producers; Emerson's producer credits include *San Francisco* (1936) and *Saratoga* (1937). He also served as president of the Actors' Equity Association from 1919 to 1928.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *San Francisco* (1936), Fi1m 71, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

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

- *Eshaet Hob* (1960), Original Story
- *The Cowboy and the Lady* (1938), as Additional Writing
- *Saratoga* (1937), Associate Producer
- *Mama Steps Out* (1937), Producer
- *San Francisco* (1936), Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)
- *The Girl from Missouri* (1934), Screenplay
- *Social Register* (1934), Story
- *The Struggle* (1931), Screenstory
- *Ex-Bad Boy* (1931), Writer
- *Conspiracy* (1930), Theatre Play
- *The Fall of Eve* (1929), Story
- *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* (1928), Writer
- *The Whole Town's Talking* (1926), Theatre Play
- *Learning to Love* (1925), Screenplay
- *Three Miles Out* (1924), Scenario Writer
- *Dulcy* (1923), Writer
- *Red Hot Romance* (1922), Screenplay, Story
- *Polly of the Follies* (1922), Writer, Director
- *Woman's Place* (1921), Writer
- *Mama's Affair* (1921), Writer
- *Dangerous Business* (1920), Writer, Producer
- *The Perfect Woman* (1920), Writer
- *The Love Expert* (1920), Producer, Writer
- *In Search of a Sinner* (1920), Writer
- *Two Weeks* (1920), Writer
- *A Virtuous Vamp* (1919), Writer
- *The Isle of Conquest* (1919), Writer
- *A Temperamental Wife* (1919), Writer, Producer, Supervisor of Production Resources
- *Oh, You Women!* (1919), Director, Writer
- *Getting Mary Married* (1919), Writer
- *Under the Top* (1919), Story
- *Good-Bye, Bill* (1918), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Come on In* (1918), Director, Writer
- *Hit-the-Trail Holliday* (1918), Writer
- *Let's Get a Divorce* (1918), Writer
- *Reaching for the Moon* (1917), Director, Writer
- *Down to Earth* (1917), Writer, Director
- *Wild and Woolly* (1917), Director
- *In Again, Out Again* (1917), Director
- *The Americano* (1916), Director, Writer
- *The Matrimaniac* (1916), Screenplay
- *Less Than the Dust* (1916), Director
- *The Social Secretary* (1916), Director, Writer
- *The Mystery of the Leaping Fish* (1916), Director
- *Macbeth* (1916), Writer, Director
- *The Flying Torpedo* (1916), as Winthrop Clavering
- *His Picture in the Papers* (1916), Director, Writer
- *Old Heidelberg* (1915), Director, Writer
- *Ghosts* (1915), Director
- *The Failure* (1915), as Tom Warder
- *The Bachelor's Romance* (1915), as David Holmes
- *The Conspiracy* (1914), as Winthrop Clavering · Writer
- *The Grey Sentinel* (1913), Actor
- *Geronimo’s Last Raid* (1912), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Photo portrait of filmmaker John Emerson (1874-1956) (1920)](https://film.one/media/person/1229331/gallery-bfd085f3a6d5.png) Photo portrait of filmmaker John Emerson (1874-1956) (1920) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/John_Emerson_Portrait_with_Inscription.png/1280px-John_Emerson_Portrait_with_Inscription.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![John Emerson](https://film.one/media/person/1229331/gallery-fa87ecfa6592.jpg) John Emerson — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/John_Emerson_-_Feb_1919_MPW.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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