Possible Clues:

• Playwright Hellman
• 'Strange Fruit' author Smith
• Jimmy Carter's mother
• Dramatist Hellman
• 'The Little Foxes' playwright
• 1970s 'first mother'
• With 86 Down, a playwright
• Silent film star Gish
• Pound and a shilling I laid out to see early movie great
• A woman of 51, all in after moving