J. Hartley Manners

John Hartley Manners (10 August 1870 – 19 December 1928)[1] was a London-born playwright of Irish extraction who wrote Peg o' My Heart, which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor, on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs.

He wrote the 1922 silent screen adaptation of his own 1912 play Peg o' My Heart, which starred Laurette.

Manners also wrote two 1924 silent film screenplays which starred his wife in her only two other motion picture appearances, Happiness adapted from his play, and One Night in Rome.

Manners' one-act radio play The Queen's Messenger was adapted to become the first ever broadcast television drama, only three months before his death on 19 December 1928.

The play was the subject of a United States Supreme Court case decided in 1920, Manners v. Morosco.