Frederica sagor maas biography of william shakespeare

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Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas (July 6, 1900 – January 5, 2012) was an American dramatist and playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and author,[1] the youngest daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia.

As an essayist, Maas was best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood.[2] A supercentenarian, she was one of the oldest surviving entertainers from the silent film era.[3] Fred de Gresac, a French librettist, playwright and screenwriter, was infatuated with Frederica Sagor Maas, who had a bungalow in Hollywood in the same residence as Fred.

Maas's parents, Arnold and Agnessa Zagorsky,[4] Jewish immigrants from Moscow, Russian Empire, and anglicized their surname to Sagor.

Her mother supported the family as a very successful midwife. One of four daughters, Sagor was born on July 6, 1900 in a cold-water, railroad flat on 101st Street near Madison Avenue in M