Doris Schroeder was a prolific American screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. Her first screenplay was the now-lost Heart of a Jewess. During the 1920s, Schroeder specialized in "women's pictures" for such specialized directors as Lois Weber

Lois Weber

Lois Weber was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian...

. Her main concern was a girl named Jenna Schroeder. Doris Schroeder concentrated on Westerns, together with Harrison Jacobs she wrote several entries in the Hopalong Cassidy series.

During the 50's and 60's wrote many television and film tie-in young adult novels for Western Publishing

Western Publishing

Western Publishing, also known as Western Printing and Lithographing Company was a Racine, Wisconsin firm responsible for publishing the Little Golden Books. Western Publishing also produced children's books and family-related entertainment products as Golden Books Family Entertainment...

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Film credits

• No Sweets (1913, story)
• The Lion's Bride (1913, writer)
• Brandon's Last Ride (1914, scenario)
• Bunny's Mistake (1914, scenario)
• Kidding the Boss (1914, story)
• The Power to Forgive (1914, story)
• Her Gethsemane (1915, story)
• Barriers of Prejudice (1915, writer)
• Edged Tools (1917, scenario)
• My Fighting Gentleman
  My Fighting Gentleman
  My Fighting Gentleman is a 1917 American silent historical drama film directed by Edward Sloman with the storyline by Doris Schroeder and Nell Shipman. Starring William Russell and Francelia Billington.-Cast:...
  
  (1917, scenario)
• Tony America (1918, scenario)
• The Price of Applause (1918, scenario)
• A Mother's Secret (1918, scenario)
• The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918, scenario)
• My Unmarried Wife (1918, scenario)
• The Wolf and His Mate (1918, scenario)
• The Trembling Hour (1919, scenario)
• Under Suspicion (1919/I, scenario)
• My Lady's Ankle (1920, scenario)
• In Folly's Trail (1920, scenario)
• The Girl in the Rain (1920, scenario)
• A Tokyo Siren (1920, scenario)
• The Path She Chose (1920, scenario)
• The Gilded Dream (1920, writer)
• The Adorable Savage (1920, writer)
• A Parisian Scandal (1921, writer)
• Nobody's Fool (1921, writer)
• The Rowdy (1921, writer)
• Opened Shutters (1921, writer)
• Short Skirts (1921, writer)
• Reputation (1921, writer)
• Cheated Love (1921, writer)
• The Smart Sex (1921, writer)
• Playing with Fire (1921/I, writer)
• Forsaking All Others
  Forsaking All Others (1922 film)
  Forsaking All Others is a 1922 American dramatic film starring actress Colleen Moore and directed by Emile Chautard for Universal Studio. It was made before Colleen became famous as a flapper but did visit some of the same subjects her later films would....
  
  (1922, scenario)
• The Altar Stairs
  The Altar Stairs
  The Altar Stairs is a 1922 drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and featuring Boris Karloff.-Cast:* Frank Mayo - Rod McLean* Louise Lorraine - Joie Malet* Lawrence Hughes - Tony Heritage* J. Jiquel Lanoe - Captain Jean Malet...
  
  (1922, scenario)
• The Lavender Bath Lady (1922, writer)
• The Married Flapper (1922, writer)
• Her Night of Nights (1922, writer)
• Kissed (1922, writer)
• The Dangerous Little Demon (1922, writer)
• Don't Get Personal
  Don't Get Personal
  Don't Get Personal is a 1942 American romantic musical film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Jane Frazee.-Cast:* Hugh Herbert - Elmer Whippet / Oscar Whippet* Mischa Auer - Stainslaus Noodnick aka Charlie* Jane Frazee - Mary Reynolds...
  
  (1922, writer)
• A Chapter in Her Life
  A Chapter in Her Life
  A Chapter in Her Life is a 1923 American film based on the novel Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life by Clara Louise Burnham. The film was directed by Lois Weber. She had previously adapted the same novel as the 1915 film Jewel, which she co-directed with her then-husband and collaborator Phillips Smalley...
  
  (1923, adaptation)
• West of the Water Tower (1923, writer)
• The Call of the Canyon
  The Call of the Canyon
  The Call of the Canyon is a silent Western directed by Victor Fleming. The film was based on the story of the same name by Zane Grey.-Preservation status:...
  
  (1923, writer)
• The Six-Fifty (1923, writer)

• To the Last man (1923, writer)
• Sawdust (1923, writer)
• My Lady of Whims (1925, writer)
• The Silent Avenger (1927, adaptation)
• Naughty Nanette (1927, writer)
• The Princess on Broadway (1927, writer)
• Salvation Jane (1927, writer)
• Crimson Romance (1934, additional dialogue)
• Bar 20 Rides Again (1935, adaptation and screenplay)
• The Eagle's Brood (1935, screenplay)
• Hop-Along Cassidy
  Hop-Along Cassidy (film)
  Hop-Along Cassidy is a 1935 western film, featuring the character Hop-Along Cassidy created by writer Clarence E. Mulford. This is the first of 66 Hopalong Cassidy films produced between 1935 and 1948 and all starring William Boyd in the title role...
  
  (1935, writer)
• Three on the Trail (1936, screenplay)
• Call of the Prairie (1936, screenplay)
• Heart of the West (1936, screenplay)
• Wall Street Cowboy
  Wall Street Cowboy
  Wall Street Cowboy is a 1939 American film starring Roy Rogers....
  
  (1939, story)
• Texas Terrors (1940, original screenplay)
• Prairie Law (1940, screenplay)
• Bullet Code (1940, screenplay)
• Legion of the Lawless (1940, screenplay)
• Oklahoma Renegades
  Oklahoma Renegades
  Oklahoma Renegades is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Nate Watt.- Cast :* Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke* Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin* Duncan Renaldo as Renaldo* Lee 'Lasses' White as Jim Keith...
  
  (1940, writer)
• Gangs of Sonora
  Gangs of Sonora
  Gangs of Sonora is a 1941 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by John English.- Cast :* Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke* Bob Steele as Tucson Smith* Rufe Davis as Lullaby Joslin* June Johnson as June Conners...
  
  (1941, original screenplay)
• The Phantom Cowboy
  The Phantom Cowboy
  - Cast :*Ted Wells as Bill Collins / Jim Russell *Doris Brook as Ruth Rogers*George Chesebro as Buck Houston*Jimmy Aubrey as Ptomaine Pete*Richard Cramer as Hank Morgan*Lew Meehan as Crooked Foreman Mason*Frank Clark as Sheriff...
  
  (1941, original screenplay)
• Two Gun Sheriff (1941, screenplay)
• A Missouri Outlaw (1941, writer)
• Kansas Cyclone (1941, writer)
• Pirates of the Prairie (1942, screenplay)
• Arizona Terrors (1942, story and screenplay)
• Stagecoach Express (1942, story)
• Westward Ho
  Westward Ho (1942 film)
  Westward Ho is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by John English.- Cast :* Bob Steele as Tucson Smith* Tom Tyler as Stony Brooke* Rufe Davis as Lullaby Joslin* Evelyn Brent as Mrs...
  
  (1942, writer)
• Bandits of the Badlands (1945, story and screenplay)
• Death Valley (1946, writer)
• Days of Buffalo Bill (1946, writer)
• Dangerous Venture (1947, screenplay)
• Fool's Gold (1947, screenplay)
• False Paradise (1948, additional dialogue)
• Strange Gamble (1948, screenplay)
• Sinister Journey (1948, screenplay)
• The Gay Amigo (1949, original screenplay)
• The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....
  
  (1949–1950, 3 episodes,)
• Bar 20 Rides Again (1950, archive footage, dialogue)
• Three on a Trail (1950, dialogue, archive footage)
• Heart of the West (1950, dialogue, archive footage)
• Border Justice (1951, dialogue, archive footage)
• Danger Trail (1951, dialogue, archive footage)
• Prairie Vengeance (1951, dialogue, archive footage)

Published works

• Annie Oakley in Danger at Diablo (1955)
• Rin Tin Tin and Call to Danger (1957)
• Annie Oakley in the Ghost Town Secret (1957)
• Annie Oakley in Double Trouble (1958)
• Walt Disney's Spin and Marty Trouble at Triple-R (1958)
• Gunsmoke (1958)
• Lassie: Forbidden Valley (1959)
• The Lennon Sisters the Secret of Holiday Island: The Secret of Holiday Island (1960)
• Walt Disney's Annette: Sierra Summer (1960)
• Walt Disney's Annette, the Desert Inn Mystery (1961)
• Walt Disney's Annette and the Mystery at Moonstone Bay (1962)
• The Beverly Hillbillies: The Saga of Wildcat Creek (1962)
• Walt Disney's Annette and the Mystery at Smugglers' Cove (1963)
• Patty Duke and Mystery Mansion (1964)
• Walt Disney's Annette and the Mystery of Medicine Wheel (1964)
• Patty Duke and the Adventure of the Chinese Junk (1966)
• Lassie Forbidden Valley (1969)

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