Catherine Chisholm Cushing

Catherine Chisholm Cushing (April 15, 1874 — October 19, 1952) was an American writer of songs, librettos, and plays, best known for her 1916 stage adaptation of Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna.

[2] Cushing started her literary career as an editor at Harper's Bazaar,[2] before finding success as a writer on Broadway.

Her first show, The Real Thing (1911),[3] was a comedy that ran for sixty performances and starred Henrietta Crosman and Minnie Dupree.

Her Topsy and Eva was among the first American musicals adapted for early television; a one-hour version aired in July 1939.

"Possibly because the program was so racist, history has chosen to forget this broadcast," commented one historian of television.