Ella Stuart

The external biography describes Ella Stuart Carson, born Cora Ella Carson, whose maiden name was Carson and whose middle name was Stuart. The Broadway database credits a performer named Ella Stuart. These may be the same person, but the connection cannot be confirmed from the provided sources. Combining the two profiles into a single biographical article would require asserting that identity as fact, which the available data does not support.

A compliant bio can be written for each individual separately based only on what the sources confirm about that specific person.

For the Broadway performer: Ella Stuart was an American stage performer who appeared on Broadway in 1903 in the musical Zig-Zag Alley.

For the screenwriter: Ella Stuart Carson, born Cora Ella Carson in Hebron, Indiana, to James Carson and Mary Jane Stuart, pursued teaching at Indiana University before shifting to journalism, working as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune and the Albuquerque Journal. She later transitioned to screenwriting alongside her husband, R. Cecil Smith, writing scripts at Thomas H. Ince's studio. The pair reportedly collaborated on more than 100 screenplays and in 1920 filed a trademark to credit their joint work to "the R. Cecil Smiths." Her screen credits include The Claws of the Hun, Green Eyes, and The Law of the North in 1918, followed by The Law of Men in 1919, and multiple productions in 1920 and 1921 including Gilded Lies, The Fighter, and Worlds Apart.