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Frances Marion (November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards.
Born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, she worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during World War I. On her return home, she moved to Los Angeles and was hired as a writing assistant, an actress and general assistant by "Lois Weber Productions", a film company owned and operated by pioneer female film director Lois Weber.She has a face as an actor, but she preferred a work that she isn't in the camera. She learned how to write a scenario from Weber. Marion wrote a story for a movie for her, but it burned before it was released.
As "Frances Marion", she wrote many scripts for actress/filmmaker Mary Pickford, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Poor Little Rich Girl, as well as scripts for numerous other successful films of the 1920s and 1930s.Marion went to New York for her job, and her husband decline to live with her and divorced. She became the first female to win an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1930 for the film The Big House, she received the Academy Award for Best Story for The Champ in 1932, both featuring Wallace Beery, and co-wrote Min and Bill starring her friend Marie Dressler and Beery in 1930. She was credited with writing 300 scripts and over 130 produced films. She directed and occasionally appeared in some of Mary Pickford's early movies.
For many years she was under contract to MGM Studios, but, independently wealthy, she left Hollywood in 1946 to devote more time to writing stage plays and novels.
Frances Marion published a memoir Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood in 1972. Marion died the following year of a ruptured aneurysm in Los Angeles.
Filmography
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Movies 164
Writer 156
Director 3
self 2
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The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000)
Dinner at Eight (1989)
The Champ (1979)
The Clown (1953)
The Pirate (1948)
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Molly and Me (1945)
Without Love (1945)
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Tish (1942)
Green Hell (1940)
Rosalie (1937)
Knight Without Armour (1937)
Love from a Stranger (1937)
Maytime (1937)
Camille (1936)
Riffraff (1936)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Going Hollywood (1933)
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Hold Your Man (1933)
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Secrets (1933)
Cynara (1932)
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Emma (1932)
The Champ (1931)
Men Behind Bars (1931)
The Big House (1931)
Daybreak (1931)
The Secret Six (1931)
The Bachelor Father (1931)
Anna Christie (1930)
Min and Bill (1930)
The Big House (1930)
Wu Li Chang (1930)
Good News (1930)
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
The Big House (1930)
In Gay Madrid (1930)
Anna Christie (1930)
The Rogue Song (1930)
Their Own Desire (1929)
The Pagan (1929)
The Bellamy Trial (1929)
The Awakening (1928)
The Masks of the Devil (1928)
Excess Baggage (1928)
The Wind (1928)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
The Cossacks (1928)
The Sunset Legion (1928)
Bringing Up Father (1928)
Love (1928)
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
Jesse James (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
Mr. Wu (1927)
The Red Mill (1927)
Don Mike (1927)
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
The Two-Gun Man (1926)
Hands Across the Border (1926)
Paris at Midnight (1926)
Other Women's Husbands (1926)
Partners Again (1926)
The Tough Guy (1926)
The First Year (1926)
Stella Dallas (1925)
Lazybones (1925)
Thank You (1925)
The Dark Angel (1925)
Graustark (1925)
Lightnin' (1925)
Ridin' the Wind (1925)
A Thief in Paradise (1925)
Zander the Great (1925)
His Supreme Moment (1925)
The Lady (1925)
Sundown (1924)
Thundering Hoofs (1924)
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
Tarnish (1924)
Cytherea (1924)
Secrets (1924)
Galloping Gallagher (1924)
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
Through the Dark (1924)
The Song of Love (1923)
Potash and Perlmutter (1923)
The French Doll (1923)
Dulcy (1923)
The Love Piker (1923)
The Eagle's Talons (1923)
Within the Law (1923)
The Nth Commandment (1923)
The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923)
The Voice from the Minaret (1923)
The Toll of the Sea (1923)
Minnie (1922)
East Is West (1922)
The Eternal Flame (1922)
Sherlock Brown (1922)
Sonny (1922)
The Primitive Lover (1922)
Back Pay (1922)
Just Around the Corner (1921)
Straight Is the Way (1921)
The Love Light (1921)
The Restless Sex (1920)
The World and His Wife (1920)
Go and Get It (1920)
Humoresque (1920)
The Flapper (1920)
Pollyanna (1920)
The Cinema Murder (1919)
Anne of Green Gables (1919)
The Misleading Widow (1919)
The Dark Star (1919)
Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
The Temple Of Dusk (1918)
Johanna Enlists (1918)
He Comes Up Smiling (1918)
The City of Dim Faces (1918)
How Could You, Jean? (1918)
M'Liss (1918)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
Stella Maris (1918)
A Little Princess (1917)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
The Amazons (1917)
The Stolen Paradise (1917)
Forget-Me-Not (1917)
The Social Leper (1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
The Web of Desire (1917)
A Girl's Folly (1917)
A Square Deal (1917)
Tillie Wakes Up (1917)
On Dangerous Ground (1917)
A Woman Alone (1917)
The Rise of Susan (1916)
The Heart of a Hero (1916)
The Hidden Scar (1916)
The Gilded Cage (1916)
The Revolt (1916)
A Woman's Way (1916)
The Crucial Test (1916)
La Vie de Bohème (1916)
A Circus Romance (1916)
The Foundling (1916)
Camille (1915)
A Daughter of the Sea (1915)
A Girl of Yesterday (1915)
Esmeralda (1915)
Rags (1915)
The Foundling (1915)
A Sister's Burden (1915)
Fanchon, the Cricket (1915)
The New York Hat (1912)
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1888-11-18
Deathday1973-05-12 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States of America
RelationshipsFred Thomson (1919-01-01 - 1928-01-01), George W. Hill (1930-01-01 - 1933-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsFrank M. Clifton
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Writing, Academy Award for Best Story
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