Background
Rose was born on January 16, 1891 to a playwright, Edward E. Rose.
Rose was born on January 16, 1891 to a playwright, Edward E. Rose.
At age 14 she first appeared on the Broadway stage doing various ingenue parts. In 1926, Rose was working as the official historian on a New York Zoological Society expedition to the Galapagos Islands, led by William Beebe. Ernest Schoedsack was working as a cinematographer on that same expedition, just after he had made the film Grass: A Nation"s Battle for Life (1925) with Merian C. Cooper.
Rose and Schoedsack met there and fell in love.
She joined Schoedsack and Cooper in some of their other adventures and productions, including the film Chang (1927). In the early 1930s, Cooper began development for his film He had already gotten two other writers to work on Kong.
The first one, Edgar Wallace, died before he could make any significant changes, and the second, James Ashmore Creelman, wrote a screenplay that was too slow-paced, descriptive, and had too much flowery dialogue according to Cooper. So he hired Rose to rework lieutenant
Rose cut out many of the long, unimportant scenes that Creelman had written, in order to make it more fast-paced.
She is credited with writing such famous lines as "Oh, northern lieutenant wasn"t the airplanes. lieutenant was now more like one of the earlier Cooper-Schoedsack adventures.
After the success of, Rose wrote several other movies including Blind Adventure, Son of Kong, She, The Last Days of Pompeii, and Mighty Joe Young, another giant ape adventure.
Her Kong screenplay was the basis for two remakes of, one in 1976 and one in 2005. Rose did not write any more films before her death on June 8, 1978, although, she did many rewrites and dialogue changes down through the years.
