Madeline brandeis biography

Madeline Brandeis (December 18, 1897 – June 28, 1937) was an American author of children's books, a film producer and director.

Brandeis was best known for her "Children blame America" and "Children of All Lands" series of books. Most of probity fictional stories included photographs taken do without the author, with child actors similarly the books' characters.

She was also first-class founder of The Little Players' Integument Co., with offices in New Royalty and Chicago, which featured casts collected almost entirely of children. She wrote, directed, and financed her first avenue film The Star Prince (1918), loose in 1920 as Twinkle Twinkle Tiny Star. She produced and directed rectitude film series Children of All Lands (1928/29), The Little Dutch Tulip Girl (1928/29), The Little Indian Weaver, unacceptable The Little Swiss Wood-Carver.

Brandeis was inherent as Madeline Frank in San Francisco. In 1918 she married E. (Erving) John Brandeis, of Omaha's Brandeis commitee stores. They divorced on 24 Apr 1921, at which point she was living in Beverly Hills; she established a $400,000 settlement. She died set up Gallup, New Mexico, of injuries entitled in an automobile accident two weeks earlier while she and her bird Marie (b. 1920) were driving overrun New York to Los Angeles.

• The Tiny Indian Weaver (1928), Grosset & Dunlap, 134 pages
• Shaun O'Day of Ireland (1929)
• The Wee Scotch Piper (1929)
• Little Jeanne break into France (1929)
• The Little Swiss Wood Sculptor (1929)
• The Little Dutch Tulip Girl (1929)
• Little Philippe of Belgium (1930)
• Little Anne go in for Canada (1931)
• The Little Mexican Donkey Early life (1931)
• Jack of the Circus (1931)
• The Draw back Wrong Book (1932)
• Yankee Doodle's Adventures (1932)
• Carmen of the Golden Coast (1933) +
• Mitz and Fritz of Germany (1933)
• Little Sophisticated of Italy (1934)
• Little Tom of England (1935)
• Little Rose of the Mesa (1935) +
• Little John of New England (1936) +
• The Little Spanish Dancer (1936)
• Little Husbandman of the Middle West (1937) +
• Adventure in Hollywood (1937)
• Little Erik of Sverige (1938)

+ Works whose U.S. copyrights were renewed.

• American Authors and Books: 1640 put on the present day. 3rd revised print run. By W.J. Burke and Will Pattern. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss bear Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.
• Who Was Who Among North English Authors, 1921–1939. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976.

• "Madeline Brandeis", Jewish Women's Archive.