Rosanneįrances Marion: Censorship and the Screenwriter in Hollywood, 1929-1931 by Leslie Kreiner Wilson Hopefully these abstracts will entice you to did a little deeper into the history and future of screenwriting. Vincent Price, Joan Bennett, Alan Hale, Sr.Highlighting the articles in the past editions of the Journal of Screenwriting, of which I am the Book Reviews Editor. Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Claude Gillingwaterĭouglas Fairbanks, Jr. Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D’Orsay, Stuart Erwin StoryNominated for the Academy Award for Best Story Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Walter Huston, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove StoryWon the Academy Award for Best Story Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy, Marjorie Rambeau Robert Montgomery, Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Lewis Stoneĭialogue, storyWon the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Helene Millard Farrell MacDonald, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, George Fawcett Arthur, Louise Fazendaĭoris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle Marion Davies, Eulalie Jensen, Anders Randolf, Reginald BarlowĪnna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice BentleyĪlma Rubens, Constance Bennett, Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, Irene Rich Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks Katherine Griffith, Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry, ZaSu Pitts, Theodore Roberts Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian GishĬlara Kimball Young, Paul Capellani, Robert Cummings She directed and occasionally appeared in some of Mary Pickford’s early movies. She was credited with writing 300 scripts and over 130 produced films. 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. On her return home, she moved to Los Angeles and was hired as a writing assistant by "Lois Weber Productions", a film company owned and operated by pioneer female film director Lois Weber.Īs "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. Footnotes Careerīorn Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, she worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during World War I. Marion died the following year of a ruptured aneurysm in Los Angeles. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1972 įor 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.įrances Marion published a memoir Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood in 1972.
After Thomson’s unexpected death in 1928, she married director George W. In 1919, she wed Fred Thomson, who co-starred with Mary Pickford in The Love Light in 1921.
She was married four times, first to Wesley de Lappe, and later to Robert Pike, both prior to changing her name. After her success in Hollywood, she often visited the resort using it as a retreat and drew several actors to the resort with her. Owens built the Aetna Springs resort in Aetna Springs, California in the 1870s. 1997 – 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. Frances Marion (November 18, 1888Beauchamp.
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