Josephine McLaughlin (July 8, 1889 – August 24, 1977) was a screenwriter who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947.

[2] McLaughlin recalled that she entered the business after selling a few short stories to pulp magazines and arranged a meeting with silent era filmmaker Thomas Ince.

"I've read some of your stuff and I think your literary style is absolutely lousy," she later recounted Ince saying.

[4] One was a short marriage to silent film director John Griffith Wray, who died just nine months after their October 1928 wedding.

[5] After a later husband, George Hiram Boyd, lost most of her $400,000 fortune ($9 million today) to bad investments, she divorced him in 1940.