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  "description": "From Wikipedia\n\nEleanor Gates was born on 26 September 1875 in Shakopee,\n\nMinnesota, southwest of Minneapolis. She later described her early life in her\n\nnovel The Biography of a Prairie Girl. Gates married another playwright,\n\nRichard Walton Tully, in 1901 after they had both completed their studies at\n\nthe University of California, Berkeley. Gates had worked initially as a writer\n\nfor a newspaper in San Francisco, as well as writing novels. In 1907, one of\n\nher novels was illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Her best known work was the play\n\nThe Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913. Tully\n\ndivorced her in 1914 citing desertion, which Gates admitted.\n\nBefore Gates's divorce had been finalized, she married\n\nanother divorcé, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, in Paterson, New Jersey, in October\n\n1914. In 1916, they separated when they both realized that they were not\n\nlegally married. At the time they both said they intended to remarry when it\n\ncould be arranged. Moore later created Book Dealers' Weekly (1925).\n\nAt the beginning of 1915, Gates founded the Liberty Feature\n\nFilm Company, which was said by Motion Picture News to be the only film company\n\nto be owned and managed by women. The company was led by the wife of an Alaskan\n\nbusinessman, Sadir Lindblom. In the year that it existed the company created\n\nseveral two realer films.\n\nThe first film, produced in 1917, was The Poor Little Rich\n\nGirl, which starred Mary Pickford. Shirley Temple starred in the 1936 remake of\n\nthe same name. The film story, created to cash in on the talents of the\n\neight-year-old Temple and the rights to the \"changing places\" story,\n\nwas obtained for $40,000 to Gates and an additional $20,000 to Mary Pickford's\n\ncompany which had made the 1917 film. The new film had made two million dollars\n\nby the end of 1939.\n\nGates died on 7 March 1951 in Los Angeles County General\n\nHospital.",
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