Frances Marion
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.
Crew
The Misleading Widow
Writer
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Screenplay, Story
Love from a Stranger
Screenplay, Adaptation
The Big House
Story, Dialogue, Writer
The Toll of the Sea
Story, Writer
The Son of the Sheik
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Scarlet Letter
Adaptation, Screenplay
Their Own Desire
Screenplay
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Writer
The World and His Wife
Screenplay
The Champ
Story, Original Story
Anne of Green Gables
Writer
The Cinema Murder
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Love Light
Director, Writer
Good News
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Masks of the Devil
Writer
Let Us Be Gay
Writer, Dialogue
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Scenario Writer, Writer
Blondie of the Follies
Screenplay, Story
Secrets
Adaptation, Screenplay
Potash and Perlmutter
Writer
Cytherea
Adaptation, Screenplay
A Thief in Paradise
Adaptation, Screenplay
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Writer
Stella Dallas
Adaptation, Screenplay
Partners Again
Adaptation, Screenplay
Riffraff
Screenplay, Story
The Primitive Lover
Writer
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Writer
Lightnin'
Adaptation, Screenplay
How Could You, Jean?
Screenplay
The Famous Mrs. Fair
Screenplay
The Heart of a Hero
Writer
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Story
Zander the Great
Adaptation, Screenplay
The City of Dim Faces
Screenplay
Knight Without Armour
Adaptation, Writer
Go and Get It
Scenario Writer
Just Around the Corner
Director, Writer
The Song of Love
Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
Within the Law
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Nth Commandment
Producer, Writer
Lazybones
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
Hands Across the Border
Story
The Red Mill
Scenario Writer, Adaptation
A Daughter of the Sea
Story
Fanchon, the Cricket
Writer
The Voice from the Minaret
Adaptation, Screenplay
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Writer
Pollyanna
Adaptation, Screenplay
Secrets
Adaptation, Screenplay
Sonny
Adaptation, Screenplay
His Supreme Moment
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Pirate
Additional Writing
Cynara
Adaptation, Screenplay
The French Doll
Writer, Scenario Writer
On Dangerous Ground
Writer
The Flapper
Story, Screenplay
Graustark
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Stolen Paradise
Writer
He Comes Up Smiling
Writer
The Callahans and the Murphys
Writer
Straight Is the Way
Writer
Green Hell
Original Story, Screenplay
Jesse James
Story, Screenplay
Dinner at Eight
Screenplay
The Sunset Legion
Story, Scenario Writer
The Love Piker
Scenario Writer
Beloved Adventuress
Screenplay, Story
The Goat
Screenplay, Story
The Battle of Hearts
Writer
The Yellow Passport
Scenario Writer
The Feast of Life
Screenplay
