Bess Meredyth (born Helen Elizabeth MacGlashan,[citation needed] February 12, 1890 – July 13, 1969) was a screenwriter and silent film actress.

The wife of film director Michael Curtiz, Meredyth wrote The Affairs of Cellini (1934) and adapted The Unsuspected (1947).

"[2] Meredyth began her screen career as an extra at D.W. Griffith's Biograph Studios in New York, before moving to Los Angeles in 1911.

[3] They divorced in 1927, following her return from supervising Ben Hur (1925)[1] In 1918, Meredyth and Lucas traveled to Australia to work with Australian sportsman Snowy Baker.

[4] Meredyth and director Michael Curtiz met soon after his arrival in the United States, while both were working at Warner Brothers Studios.

Most notably, Curtiz reportedly called Meredyth for input several times a day while working on his most successful film, Casablanca (1942).