Mildred Horn
Screenwriter, Film writer
Who is Mildred Horn?
Mildred Horn was a film critic and screenwriter, best known for her work on the Kroger Babb exploitation film Mom and Dad.
Horn was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied at Academy High School. She later moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she became a film critic for a local paper.
When Horn was sent to review Kroger Babb's production of Child Bride, she was horrified that such a "cheap, crude, mislabeled morality play would be shown in a major Indiana family theater". In Horn's opinion the film was material for a shoddy sideshow tent at some backwoods county fair. Babb later met with Horn, instead of writing a scathing review, Horn and Babb entered into a personal and professional relationship that would last forty years until his death in 1983. They enjoyed a common-law marriage after 1944, only making it official when Babb's first wife Toby consented to a divorce in the late 60s.
Together with Babb and Jack Jossey they formed "Hygienic Productions", and she wrote the screenplay for their best known production, Mom and Dad. The film was presented in a unique way, and included lectures and the sale of hygiene books that Horn wrote.
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on July 23, 2013
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