A successful playwright, Marguerite Bertsch was hired by Vitagraph in
1913 as a screenwriter. After writing several successful pictures for
the studio, she was given the chance to direct, at first with a
co-director (William P.S. Earle) on
The Law Decides (1916), then on
her own with
The Devil's Prize (1916). She
directed four films altogether, and later published a book about how to
make movies. She left the business in 1918, and died in 1967 at age 77.
