Isabel Johnston(I)
- Writer
Isabel M. Johnston was born in 1868 in Pennsylvania and began writing
scenarios in Hollywood in 1918. She is credited with about a dozen
screenplays over a ten-year period, and also had two daughters who also
wrote for studios; Agnes (b. 1896) and Isabel (b. 1899). In 1920 the
three women shared a bungalow at 1911 Pinehurst Road in Hollywood near
the home of better-known writer Edgar Rice Burroughs (who lived at 2029
while he wrote the earliest Tarzan books), art director Wilfred
Buckland (who killed his emotionally unstable older son and committed
suicide in 1946 at 2035), and famed songwriter Carrie Jacobs Bond (who
wrote "I Love You Truly" at her secluded mansion known as The End of
the Road at 2042).