Kate Corbaley

Kate Corbaley (born Kate Alaska Hinckley Hooper) was a pioneering American screenwriter and development executive active from the silent era through her death in the 1930s.

Biography Kate was born at sea off the coast of Mazatlan, Mexico, to William Hooper and Mary Caldwell. Her family was financially well-off, and she attended Stanford University, where she studied English.

After the split, she turned to writing. She won several contests in the 1910s, went to work at MGM as a story editor after working for Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew. She wrote a string of films through the 1920s, and published a book on screenwriting called Selling Manuscripts in the Photoplay Market. She eventually became a consultant at the Palmer Photoplay Institute, and worked as a development executive, evaluating scripts and making them more commercial. She died on September 23, 1938, in her Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, home after a brief illness. Real Folks (1918)