Gertrude Marion Burton (née Hopkins June 8, 1875 – January 3, 1952), also known by her married name, Gertrude Bergen, was an American screenwriter, reporter, and playwright active during Hollywood's silent era.
Burton was born into an affluent family in Stillwater, Minnesota, and raised primarily in San Francisco.
[1] She was educated at the Irving Institute in San Francisco, and eventually graduated from Emerson College in Boston.
[2] As a writer, her work appeared in publications like Parisienne, Collier's Smart Set, Town and Country, and Vanity Fair, and she also wrote a number of screenplays for director E.H.
[1][3] Her weekly column called "Broadway Silhouettes" ran in several newspapers.