Frances Marion
Writing
Born November 18, 1888 in San Francisco, California, USA
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.
Filmography
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Dinner at Eight
The Champ
The Pirate
Molly and Me
Green Hell
Knight Without Armour
Love from a Stranger
Camille
Riffraff
Dinner at Eight
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Hold Your Man
Secrets
Cynara
Blondie of the Follies
Emma
The Champ
The Big House
The Secret Six
Anna Christie
Min and Bill
The Big House
Good News
Let Us Be Gay
The Big House
Anna Christie
The Rogue Song
Their Own Desire
The Masks of the Devil
The Awakening
The Wind
The Cossacks
Kit Carson
The Sunset Legion
Bringing Up Father
The Pioneer Scout
Love
Jesse James
Madame Pompadour
The Callahans and the Murphys
Mr. Wu
The Red Mill
Don Mike
The Scarlet Letter
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Lone Hand Saunders
The Son of the Sheik
The Two-Gun Man
Hands Across the Border
Paris at Midnight
Partners Again
The Tough Guy
The First Year
Stella Dallas
Lazybones
Thank You
The Dark Angel
Graustark
Lightnin'
Ridin' the Wind
A Thief in Paradise
Zander the Great
His Supreme Moment
The Lady
Sundown
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Tarnish
Cytherea
Secrets
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Mask of Lopez
Through the Dark
The Song of Love
Potash and Perlmutter
The French Doll
Dulcy
The Love Piker
The Eagle's Talons
Within the Law
The Nth Commandment
The Famous Mrs. Fair
The Voice from the Minaret
The Toll of the Sea
East Is West
The Eternal Flame
Sherlock Brown
Sonny
The Primitive Lover
Back Pay
Just Around the Corner
Straight Is the Way
The Love Light
The Restless Sex
The World and His Wife
Go and Get It
Humoresque
The Flapper
Pollyanna
The Cinema Murder
Anne of Green Gables
The Misleading Widow
The Dark Star
Captain Kidd, Jr.
The Temple Of Dusk
The Goat
Johanna Enlists
He Comes Up Smiling
The City of Dim Faces
How Could You, Jean?
M'Liss
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Stella Maris
A Little Princess
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Amazons
Beloved Adventuress
The Stolen Paradise
The Crimson Dove
Darkest Russia
Forget-Me-Not
The Social Leper
The Poor Little Rich Girl
The Web of Desire
A Girl's Folly
A Square Deal
A Hungry Heart
On Dangerous Ground
A Woman Alone
The Rise of Susan
All Man
Bought and Paid For
The Heart of a Hero
The Hidden Scar
The Gilded Cage
Friday the 13th
The Summer Girl
A Woman's Way
The Crucial Test
La Vie de Bohème
The Battle of Hearts
The Feast of Life
The Social Highwayman
Then I'll Come Back to You
The Yellow Passport
A Circus Romance
The Foundling
Camille
A Daughter of the Sea
A Girl of Yesterday
Rosanna Danford
Esmeralda
Rags
A Sister's Burden
Fanchon, the Cricket
The New York Hat