Hallie Erminie Rives
writer
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Before she ever saw her name flicker on a movie-house marquee, Hallie Erminie Rives had already conquered the best-seller lists with velvet-clad romances and whip-crack historical dramas. Hollywood simply followed the trail of readers clutching her books. In 1915 the Selig Polyscope Company distilled her novel “Satan Sanderson” into a silent potboiler that kept nickelodeons buzzing. A year later she sent the Old Dominion’s proudest bloodlines charging across the screen in “The Valiants of Virginia,” a Technicolor dream still a decade before Technicolor existed. After a twenty-year breather she let the cameras return, this time for “Strange Experiment” (1937), a tale of medical obsession that proved the grande dame of Virginia fiction could still startle a talkie audience.
