Agnes Brand Leahy

Agnes Brand Leahy (August 18, 1893 – March 31, 1934) was an American screenwriter active in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Early life Agnes Laura Brand was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Washington state, the daughter of Matthew Douglas Brand and Mila Hill Brand. Her father was a real estate agent.

Career Leahy and her husband relocated to Southern California in 1918 "The average studio stenographer has a profound knowledge of screen material, production costs and picture making," she explained in 1931.

Over the course of her career, she worked with filmmakers like John Ford, Dorothy Arzner, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Frank R. Strayer. She often wrote Westerns; she wrote one of the first talking pictures starring Gary Cooper, The Spoilers (1930). She adapted a Zane Grey story with Keene Thompson and Edward E. Paramore Jr., produced as another Gary Cooper vehicle, Fighting Caravans (1931). She worked with Sidney Buchman and Percy Heath to adapt a Rupert Hughes novel into No One Man (1932) starring Carole Lombard. Her last movie was Lone Cowboy (1933), a Western for child star Jackie Cooper.

Personal life Brand married Philip Frederic "Fred" Leahy in Seattle in 1913. The couple lived in Manhattan Beach with her widowed mother and younger brother.

Selected filmography Cap'n Jericho (1933) Lone Cowboy (1933) Pick-Up (1933) Evenings for Sale (1932) The Night of June 13 (1932) Forgotten Commandments (1932) Sky Bride (1932) No One Man (1932) Caught (1931) Fighting Caravans (1931) The Spoilers (1930) Only the Brave (1930) Stairs of Sand (1929) Moran of the Marines (1928) Red Hair (1928) Get Your Man (1927) The Blue Eagle (1926) Go Straight (1925)