Talk:Ethel Borden

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I suspect the name "Ethel B. Borden" may be a lapsus calami introduced and perpetuated posthumously: contemporary print sources refer to her variously as Ethel Borden Harriman, Ethel Harriman Russell, or simply Ethel Borden, and the question of what the "B." stands for has no obvious explanation (Ethel Borden Borden??). The earliest instance of "Ethel B. Borden" I can find that unambiguously refers to the screenwriter is from a 1971 issue of Films in Review, and as far as I can tell the middle "B." subsequently only appears sporadically in the credits of film compendiums and, later, Internet databases, none of which are particularly reliable. IMDb is notoriously unreliable. "Ethel B. Borden" does not appear in any copyright registrations for her screenplays. I think a more suitable article title would be simply Ethel Borden, which is how she was often referred to in the peak of her career, e.g. [1], [2]. --Animalparty! (talk) 08:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]