- Born in Huntsville, Texas, Emily Brown was the daughter of an Episcipol Minister and a Homemaker. She was one of ten children. Her first job was as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle. In 1908 she married Howard Heininger, a Western Union telegraph operator, in El Paso, Texas. In 1912 Emily, now Emily Brown Heininger, moved with her husband to Chicago, Illinois. In 1913 she was hired by Essanay Studios as a scenario writer. She and Director E. Mason Hopper became fast friends and she quickly became adept at writing slap-stick comedy. Known as "Heinie" to her friends she became close to actor Ben Turpin and fellow writer George Ade. In 1914 William Lord Wright of the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote of her "Emily Brown Heininger, comedy scenario writer for Essanay, is the one rival of E. W. Sargent on slap-stick comedy." Sargent was a prolific scenario writer of the time. After a time Emily left Essanay and wrote freelance. She had films of her scenarios made at Essanay, Selig Polyscope and Vitagraph. She was also a prolific newspaper and magazine writer. She was published in The Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, Movie Pictorial Magazine, Motion Picture Story Magazine, and Photoplay. Emily died in Houston, Texas in 1958.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ray Simmons
- The slap-stick comedy business is a near tragedy in every stage of the game.
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