Luci Ward
Luci Ward was an American screenwriter. She mostly worked on B crime and Western films.Biography
Luci was born and raised in Monroe, Louisiana, the daughter of Edgar Ward and Lucille Pipes. She had a brother, Royce, and two step-siblings from her father's second marriage.
Ward began her career as a secretary to First National executives and screenwriters before becoming a script girl. Later, she got a chance to pen her own scripts. She also wrote articles for publications like Cosmopolitan, sometimes using the pen name Brooks Nevins.
She testified at a National Labor Relations Board hearing that she was hired as a stenographer at Warner Brothers for $25 a week and wasn't given a raise when she was promoted to screenwriter. Warner Brothers then hired her a personal secretary at $32.50 a week.
She was married to fellow screenwriter Jack Natteford and co-wrote several films with him.Selected filmography
