Nell Martin

Nell Martin was born on May 27, 1887 in USA. Nell Martin's big-screen debut came with Lord Byron of Broadway directed by Harry Beaumont in 1930.

Born in Illinois, and working as a strawberry picker in Missouri by the age of ten. Called herself a "Jill-of-all-trades," as she worked as a newspaper reporter, taxi-cab driver, lawyer's assistant, laundry worker, and press agent before she became a writer. Author of over 200 short stories and eight novels. Originator of the Maisie stories which later starred Ann Sothern. One time lover of Dashiell Hammett: he dedicated The Glass Key (1930) to her. Friend of Earl Stanley Gardner, Don Blanding and Lon Chaney, Sr.