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Frederic Arnold Kummer Sr. (August 5, 1873 - November 22, 1943) was an American author, playwright and screenwriter. He also wrote under the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks. Several of his works were made into films. A caricature of him is on the wall of Sardi's restaurant.

He lived in Maryland.

He married twice, first to the playwright Clare Kummer with whom he had two children. He also had three more children.[1]

A Liberty Ship was named after him during World War II.[2]^{[unreliable source?]}

His son Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr. was also a writer.

In testimony^[when?] to the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, he was noted^{[by whom?]} as a member of the Lincoln Brigade executive committee.[3]

Filmography

• Adventure of the Absent Minded Professor (1914)
• Adventure of the Counterfeit Money (1914)
• Adventure of the Missing Legacy (1914)[4]
• The Yellow Pawn (1916)
• The Belgian (1917)
• The Slave Market (1917)
• The Town Scandal (1923)

Bibliography

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• Richard and Grace Duvall
• The Blue Lights: A Detective Story
• The Brute
• The Film of Fear
• The First Days of Man
• The Green God
• The Ivory Snuff Box[6] (1912)
• The Little Fortune' (1915)
• Peggy-Elise (1919)
• Shades of Hades
• Love's Greatest Mistake
• Forbidden Wine
• The Web
• A Song of Sixpence
• Gentlemen in Hades: The Story of a Damned Debutante[7]
• "Honeymoom Detective" series[1]
• Leif Erikson, the Lucky
• The Film of Fear[8]
• The Torch of Liberty (1941)
• Death at Eight Bells: A Novel (1937)
• One Million Francs
• The Pipes of Yesterday
• Eternal Conflict
• Death at Eight Bells
• The Emigrant, a play in three acts[9]
• The First Days of Man
• The First Days of Knowledge

Short stories

• "Mr. Buttles"
• "The Choice"
• "Are You a Suffragette?"

References

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