Wilson Collison was a prolific author and playwright. His works include "Up in Mabel's Room" and "Getting Gertie's Garter." Collison’s “Red Dust

Red Dust

Red Dust is an American 1932 romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The picture is the second of six movies Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made together and was produced during the Pre-Code era of Hollywood...

” became the 1932 Clark Gable

Clark Gable

William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

 film by the same name and the 1953 Clark Gable film “Mogambo

Mogambo

Mogambo is a 1953 film directed by John Ford, featuring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Donald Sinden. The film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play by Wilson Collison....

.” The Maisie

Maisie

Maisie Ravier is a popular fictional character, the star of ten films and a radio show. She was played by Ann Sothern.After a string of films that failed to attract an audience, Sothern left RKO Radio Pictures and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making her first film for MGM in 1939...

 series of motion pictures, with the first in 1939, was from the Collison’s book "Dark Dame." MGM cast Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades.-Early life and career:...

as Maisie Ravier, a brash, American working woman. Sothern also had the role in a half-hour weekly radio series.