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Frances Marion was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of the most renowned female screenwriters of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. During the course of her career, she wrote over 325 scripts. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards. Marion began her film career working for filmmaker Lois Weber. She wrote numerous silent fi…
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Born 18 November 1888 · Died 12 May 1973 · Q463883
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“She was suspended from elementary school when she was twelve for drawing satiric pictures of her teacher and was sent to St. Margaret’s Hall, a private boarding school in San Mateo. At sixteen, she transferred to the Mark Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco”
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“s Humoresque which was Cosmopolitan”
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Died 1973-05-12.
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To devote more time to writing stage plays and novels
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Molly, Bless Her, the 1937 novel written by Frances Marion, was adapted by Roger Burford, as the screenplay for the comedy film, Molly and Me, directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Reginald
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“Her father divorced her mother when Marion was almost ten and remarried just a few years later. She was sent to a Christian boarding school...”
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Story for The Champ (1932).
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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
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“The book’s portrayal of the community as isolated inbreds bent on self-destruction and domination understandably ruffled many feathers”
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing for The Big House (1930).
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But that marriage ended in divorce in 1933
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“Half of all films written before 1925 were written by women, but writers' names rarely appeared on the screen. In fact, this figure is available only through the copyright records at the Library of Congress, where writers' names had to be included.”
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Wed Fred Thomson, who co-starred with Mary Pickford in The Love Light in 1921
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William Randolph Hearst offered her $2,000 a week to write scenarios for his Cosmopolitan Productions
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When, following the success of The Poor Little Rich Girl, Famous Players–Lasky signed her to a $50,000 a year contract as Mary Pickford's official scenarioist
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Marion participated in a parade of more than thirty thousand supporters of women's suffrage in New York City
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Marion befriended Adela Rogers St
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Marion worked as a poster artist for the Morosco Theater as well as an advertising firm doing commercial layouts
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Married her 19-year-old instructor from the Art Institute, Wesley de Lappe
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Born 1888-11-18.
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