![]() ![]() ![]() When Frances wrote the screenplay, she had Wallace Beery in mind, following his acclaimed performances in her scripts The Big House (1930) and Min and Bill (1930). The Champ and Dinner at Eightįrances Marion won her second Oscar in 1932 for The Champ in 1931, having won the Best Writing Oscar for The Big House in the previous year. Frances built friendships with other prolific female Hollywood artists, especially actor Mary Pickford.ĭespite her busy schedule as a writer, producer, and director, Frances was an active member of the Suffragettes.īecoming renowned for her impressive film adaptations such as The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Pollyanna (1920), A Thief in Paradise (1925), Anna Christie (1930), and Camille (1936), as well as her textbooks such as How to Write and Sell Film Stories (1937), Frances Marion had become one of the industry’s most prolific and successful talents. She was also a producer of more than 130 movies and also directed a few. Success in the Film IndustryĪfter returning to the United States, Frances continued her success and is credited with writing more than 300 scripts. Frances took up journalism again at the outbreak of the First World War when she became an overseas reporter. After graduating, Frances held several jobs in California such as being a photographer’s assistant, a commercial artist, a reporter, and an advertising artist.įrances became involved with the film industry in 1914 when she worked at Lois Weber Productions, where she became a writing assistant and an actor. Beginningsīorn Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco in 1888, Frances went to art school whilst still in her teens. ![]() Frances Marion became increasingly powerful and innovative in this male-dominated industry, but her remarkable legacy is now often overlooked. Many today forget that talented female screenwriters such as Frances Marion, Anita Loos, and June Mathis wrote more than half of all the scripts during the silent era. One of the most successful and acclaimed screenwriters before and during Hollywood’s Golden Age was Frances Marion, who is cited frequently as one of the most important screenwriters in the development of the motion picture. ![]()
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