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name: "Kathryn Scola"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kathryn-scola"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 November 1891"
died: "4 January 1982"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:48:49.702915+00:00"
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# Kathryn Scola

Writer. Born 6 November 1891 in Paterson. Died 4 January 1982.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 November 1891, Paterson
- **Died:** 4 January 1982
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Scola, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20685457, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778636/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105452

## Biography

Kathryn Scola (6 November 1891 – 4 January 1982) was an American screenwriter. Born Catherine Scola in Paterson, New Jersey, she worked on more than thirty films during the 1930s and 1940s for studios including Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox.

Her credits include the screenplay for *Baby Face* (1933), often written in collaboration with Gene Markey, as well as *Female* (1933), *Midnight Mary* (1933), *The Glass Key* (1935), *Alexander's Ragtime Band* (1938) and *The Constant Nymph* (1943). She also contributed to a 1956 episode of the television series *The 20th Century Fox Hour*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Alexander's Ragtime Band* (1938), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/alexanders-ragtime-band.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Night Unto Night* (1949), Writer
- *Colonel Effingham's Raid* (1946), Screenplay
- *Happy Land* (1943), Screenplay
- *The Constant Nymph* (1943), Screenplay
- *The Lady from Cheyenne* (1941), Screenplay
- *The House Across the Bay* (1940), Writer
- *Hotel for Women* (1939), Story, Screenplay
- *Always Goodbye* (1938), Screenplay
- *Alexander's Ragtime Band* (1938), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/alexanders-ragtime-band.md)
- *Second Honeymoon* (1937), Screenplay
- *Wife, Doctor and Nurse* (1937), Writer
- *It Had to Happen* (1936), Writer
- *The Glass Key* (1935), Screenplay
- *One Hour Late* (1934), Screenplay
- *A Lost Lady* (1934), Screenplay
- *The Merry Frinks* (1934), Screenplay, Story
- *A Modern Hero* (1934), Screenplay
- *Fashions of 1934* (1934), Adaptation
- *Shadows of Sing Sing* (1933), Story
- *Female* (1933), Writer
- *Baby Face* (1933), Screenplay
- *Midnight Mary* (1933), Screenplay
- *Lilly Turner* (1933), Screenplay
- *Luxury Liner* (1933), Screenplay
- *Night After Night* (1932), as Continuity
- *Wicked* (1931), Writer
- *The Lady Who Dared* (1931), Writer
- *One Night at Susie's* (1930), Screenplay

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