Beulah hughes biography

American screenwriter, producer and film studio executive

June Mathis (born June Beulah Hughes,^[1] January 30, 1887 – July 26, 1927) was an American screenwriter.

Mathis was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood.^[2] In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge.^[3] Mathis is best remembered for discovering Rudolph Valentino and writing such films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and Blood and Sand (1922).

Early life

June Mathis was born June Beulah Hughes in Leadville, Colorado, the only child of Virginia Ruth and Dr. Philip Hughes. Her parents divorced when she was seven and her mother remarried to William D.

Mathis, a widower with three children whose name she would eventually adopt as a stage name.

She had been a sickly child and believed she healed herself through her sheer f