Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

[CBHagman]

3. Frederica Sagor Maas, screenwriter of the silent era, dies at age 111.

There's living well, and then there's outliving just about everybody!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/arts/frederica-sagor-maas-scriptwriter-from-the-silent-era-dies-at-111.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1326830896-ajxNFcS+UL0k4eluWp0H2g

Before dying on Jan. 5 in La Mesa, Calif., at 111, Mrs. Maas was one of the last living links to cinema’s silent era. She wrote dozens of stories, adaptations and scripts, sat with Greta Garbo at the famed long table in MGM’s commissary, and adapted to sound in the movies, and then to color.

Perhaps most satisfying, Mrs. Maas outlived pretty much anybody who might have disagreed with her version of things. “I can get my payback now,” she said in an interview with Salon in 1999. “I’m alive and thriving and, well, you S.O.B.’s are all below.”