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[[Image:Madeline Brandeis.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Madeline Brandeis and her daughter Marie]]<br />
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'''Madeline Frank Brandeis''' (December 18, 1897 – June 28, 1937)<ref>"Woman Author Injured", ''The New York Times'', June 16, 1937, p. 25.</ref><ref>"Mrs. Madeline Brandeis", ''The New York Times'', June 29, 1937, p. 21.</ref> was an American writer of [[children's books]], a film producer and director.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Brandeis was born as Madeline Frank in [[San Francisco]].<ref>U.S. Census, March 15, 1910. State of California, County of San Francisco, enumeration district 275, p. 9-B, family 132.</ref><br />
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Brandeis was best known for her "Children of America" and "Children of All Lands" series of books. Most of the [[Fiction|fictional stories]] included photographs taken by the writer, with child actors as the books' characters.<br />
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She was also a founder of The Little Players' Film Co., with offices in [[New York City]] and [[Chicago]], which featured casts composed almost entirely of children. She wrote, directed, and financed her first feature film ''[[The Star Prince (1918 film)|The Star Prince]]'' (1918), released in 1920 as ''Twinkle Twinkle Little Star''. She produced and directed the film series ''Children of All Lands'' (1928/29), ''The Little Dutch Tulip Girl'' (1928/29), ''The Little Indian Weaver'', and ''The Little Swiss Wood-Carver''.<ref name=WFPP>{{cite web|title=Madeline Brandeis|url=https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-madeline-brandeis/|website=Women Film Pioneers Project|publisher=[[Columbia University Libraries]]|accessdate=22 November 2019}}</ref><br />
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In 1918, she married E. (Erving) John Brandeis, of [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]]'s Brandeis department stores. They divorced on 24 April 1921, at which point she was living in [[Beverly Hills]]; she received a {{USD|400000}} settlement.<ref>“Mrs. Brandeis Wins Decree and $400,000 is Omaha Report.” Los Angeles Daily Herald, 24 April 1921.</ref> She died in [[Gallup, New Mexico]], of injuries suffered in an automobile accident two weeks earlier while she and her daughter Marie (b. 1920) were driving from New York to [[Los Angeles]].<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*The Little Indian Weaver (1928), [[Grosset & Dunlap]], 134 pages<br />
*Shaun O'Day of Ireland (1929)<br />
*The Wee Scotch Piper (1929)<br />
*Little Jeanne of France (1929)<br />
*The Little Swiss Wood Carver (1929)<br />
*The Little Dutch Tulip Girl (1929)<br />
*Little Philippe of Belgium (1930)<br />
*Little Anne of Canada (1931)<br />
*The Little Mexican Donkey Boy (1931)<br />
*Jack of the Circus (1931)<br />
*The All Wrong Book (1932)<br />
*Yankee Doodle's Adventures (1932)<br />
*Carmen of the Golden Coast (1933) +<br />
*Mitz and Fritz of Germany (1933)<br />
*Little Tony of Italy (1934)<br />
*Little Tom of England (1935)<br />
*Little Rose of the Mesa (1935) +<br />
*Little John of New England (1936) +<br />
*The Little Spanish Dancer (1936)<br />
*Little Farmer of the Middle West (1937) +<br />
*Adventure in Hollywood (1937)<br />
*Little Erik of Sweden (1938)<br />
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+ ''Works whose U.S. copyrights were renewed.''<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* ''[[American Authors and Books|American Authors and Books: 1640 to the present day]]''. 3rd revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.<br />
* ''Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921–1939''. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976.<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* "[http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/brandeis-madeline Madeline Brandeis]", Jewish Women's Archive.<br />
* [https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-madeline-brandeis/ Madeline Brandies] at Women Film Pioneers Project<br />
* {{Gutenberg author | id=38210| name=Madeline Brandeis}}<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Madeline Brandeis |birth=1897 |death=1937}}<br />
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