Frances Marion

Frances Marion

  • Birthday: 1888-11-18
  • Deathday: 1973-05-12
  • Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
  • Also know as: Frank M. Clifton

Biography

From Wikipedia 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

A Girl of Yesterday

1915

As Rosanna Danford

The Women Who Run Hollywood

2016

As Herself (archive footage)

Production

The Love Light

1921

As Director

The Song of Love

1923

As Director

Just Around the Corner

1921

As Director

The Nth Commandment

1923

As Producer

The Secret Six

1931

As Writer

Love from a Stranger

1937

As Screenplay

Just Around the Corner

1921

As Writer

The Champ

1931

As Writer

Camille

1936

As Screenplay

The Big House

1930

As Dialogue

The Big House

1930

As Story

Stella Maris

1918

As Writer

The Toll of the Sea

1923

As Story

The Son of the Sheik

1926

As Adaptation

The Scarlet Letter

1927

As Adaptation

Emma

1932

As Story

Their Own Desire

1929

As Screenplay

Anne of Green Gables

1919

As Writer

The Cinema Murder

1919

As Scenario Writer

Anna Christie

1930

As Screenplay

The Wind

1928

As Screenplay

Good News

1930

As Scenario Writer

The Masks of the Devil

1928

As Writer

The Rogue Song

1930

As Writer

The Awakening

1928

As Story

Let Us Be Gay

1930

As Writer

Let Us Be Gay

1930

As Dialogue

Anna Christie

1930

As Adaptation

Blondie of the Follies

1932

As Screenplay

Knight Without Armour

1937

As Adaptation

Humoresque

1920

As Writer

A Little Princess

1917

As Writer

Secrets

1924

As Adaptation

The Poor Little Rich Girl

1917

As Scenario Writer

Cytherea

1924

As Adaptation

Potash and Perlmutter

1923

As Writer

Stella Dallas

1925

As Adaptation

A Thief in Paradise

1925

As Adaptation

Riffraff

1936

As Screenplay

Partners Again

1926

As Adaptation

M'Liss

1918

As Writer

The Love Light

1921

As Writer

The First Year

1926

As Writer

Lightnin'

1925

As Adaptation

Captain Kidd, Jr.

1919

As Writer

The Famous Mrs. Fair

1923

As Screenplay

How Could You, Jean?

1918

As Screenplay

The Web of Desire

1917

As Writer

Paris at Midnight

1926

As Writer

The Tough Guy

1926

As Story

Zander the Great

1925

As Adaptation

Through the Dark

1924

As Writer

The Toll of the Sea

1923

As Writer

Johanna Enlists

1918

As Writer

The Rise of Susan

1916

As Writer

The Hidden Scar

1916

As Writer

A Woman's Way

1916

As Writer

The Revolt

1916

As Writer

Fanchon, the Cricket

1915

As Writer

Secrets

1933

As Adaptation

Within the Law

1923

As Adaptation

Min and Bill

1930

As Writer

Back Pay

1922

As Writer

The Nth Commandment

1923

As Writer

Lazybones

1925

As Scenario Writer

The Lady

1925

As Writer

The Red Mill

1927

As Scenario Writer

Mr. Wu

1927

As Writer

The Red Mill

1927

As Adaptation

Riffraff

1936

As Story

Tillie Wakes Up

1917

As Writer

The Restless Sex

1920

As Writer

Thank You

1925

As Screenplay

The Song of Love

1923

As Adaptation

The Eternal Flame

1922

As Writer

The Voice from the Minaret

1923

As Adaptation

Pollyanna

1920

As Adaptation

Sonny

1922

As Adaptation

His Supreme Moment

1925

As Adaptation

The Dark Angel

1925

As Writer

The Foundling

1916

As Writer

Rags

1915

As Writer

The Big House

1931

As Writer

Cynara

1932

As Adaptation

Molly and Me

1945

As Novel

The French Doll

1923

As Writer

East Is West

1922

As Writer

On Dangerous Ground

1917

As Writer

Love from a Stranger

1937

As Adaptation

Madame Pompadour

1927

As Writer

Dinner at Eight

1989

As Writer

The Amazons

1917

As Writer

The Flapper

1920

As Screenplay

The Flapper

1920

As Story

Tarnish

1924

As Screenplay

Graustark

1925

As Adaptation

A Girl's Folly

1917

As Writer

He Comes Up Smiling

1918

As Writer

The Temple Of Dusk

1918

As Writer

Green Hell

1940

As Screenplay

Green Hell

1940

As Original Story

The Stolen Paradise

1917

As Writer

Straight Is the Way

1921

As Writer

Camille

1915

As Screenplay

Within the Law

1923

As Screenplay

The Cinema Murder

1919

As Screenplay

A Thief in Paradise

1925

As Screenplay

Zander the Great

1925

As Screenplay

Good News

1930

As Screenplay

The Voice from the Minaret

1923

As Screenplay

Cynara

1932

As Screenplay

Partners Again

1926

As Screenplay

Lazybones

1925

As Screenplay

Cytherea

1924

As Screenplay

Sonny

1922

As Screenplay

Knight Without Armour

1937

As Writer

Secrets

1933

As Screenplay

The Son of the Sheik

1926

As Screenplay

His Supreme Moment

1925

As Screenplay

The Love Piker

1923

As Writer

The Scarlet Letter

1927

As Screenplay

Stella Dallas

1925

As Screenplay

Pollyanna

1920

As Screenplay

Secrets

1924

As Screenplay

Lightnin'

1925

As Screenplay

The Song of Love

1923

As Screenplay

Graustark

1925

As Screenplay

The New York Hat

1912

As Writer

Ridin' the Wind

1925

As Writer

The Two-Gun Man

1926

As Co-Writer

Jesse James

1927

As Screenplay

Jesse James

1927

As Story

Don Mike

1927

As Story

The Crucial Test

1916

As Writer

Dinner at Eight

1933

As Screenplay

Sherlock Brown

1922

As Writer

A Woman Alone

1917

As Writer

The Misleading Widow

1919

As Writer

The World and His Wife

1920

As Screenplay

The Champ

1979

As Story

The Primitive Lover

1922

As Writer

The City of Dim Faces

1918

As Screenplay

The Gilded Cage

1916

As Writer

Go and Get It

1920

As Scenario Writer

Dulcy

1923

As Writer

The Dark Star

1919

As Writer

A Sister's Burden

1915

As Writer

The Eagle's Talons

1923

As Writer

Sundown

1924

As Writer

The Big House

1930

As Writer

The Heart of a Hero

1916

As Writer

A Square Deal

1917

As Writer

Forget-Me-Not

1917

As Writer

The Big House

1930

As Writer

Love

1928

As Writer

A Daughter of the Sea

1915

As Story

A Circus Romance

1916

As Story

The Social Leper

1917

As Writer

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