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.
A Sister's Burden
(Writer)
The Misleading Widow
(Writer)
The Eagle's Talons
(Writer)
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
(Story)
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
(Screenplay)
The Secret Six
(Writer)
Love from a Stranger
(Screenplay)
The Champ
(Writer)
Camille
(Screenplay)
The Big House
(Dialogue)
The Big House
(Story)
Stella Maris
(Writer)
The Toll of the Sea
(Story)
Sundown
(Writer)
The Son of the Sheik
(Adaptation)
The Scarlet Letter
(Adaptation)
Emma
(Story)
Their Own Desire
(Screenplay)
The Winning of Barbara Worth
(Writer)
The World and His Wife
(Screenplay)
The Champ
(Story)
Anne of Green Gables
(Writer)
The Cinema Murder
(Scenario Writer)
The Love Light
(Director)
Love
(Writer)
The Big House
(Writer)
The Wind
(Screenplay)
Anna Christie
(Screenplay)
Good News
(Scenario Writer)
The Masks of the Devil
(Writer)
Let Us Be Gay
(Dialogue)
Let Us Be Gay
(Writer)
The Poor Little Rich Girl
(Scenario Writer)
Anna Christie
(Adaptation)
Blondie of the Follies
(Screenplay)
Blondie of the Follies
(Story)
The Awakening
(Story)
Secrets
(Adaptation)
Potash and Perlmutter
(Writer)
The Rogue Song
(Writer)
Cytherea
(Adaptation)
A Thief in Paradise
(Adaptation)
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
(Writer)
Stella Dallas
(Adaptation)
Partners Again
(Adaptation)
Riffraff
(Screenplay)
The Love Light
(Writer)
M'Liss
(Writer)
The Primitive Lover
(Writer)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(Writer)
The First Year
(Writer)
Captain Kidd, Jr.
(Writer)
Lightnin'
(Adaptation)
The Web of Desire
(Writer)
The Famous Mrs. Fair
(Screenplay)
How Could You, Jean?
(Screenplay)
Paris at Midnight
(Writer)
The Tough Guy
(Story)
The Heart of a Hero
(Writer)
The Prizefighter and the Lady
(Story)
Zander the Great
(Adaptation)
The City of Dim Faces
(Screenplay)
Through the Dark
(Writer)
Knight Without Armour
(Adaptation)
The Gilded Cage
(Writer)
Go and Get It
(Scenario Writer)
Just Around the Corner
(Director)
The Song of Love
(Director)
The Hidden Scar
(Writer)
A Woman's Way
(Writer)
The Revolt
(Writer)
The Toll of the Sea
(Writer)
Johanna Enlists
(Writer)
The Rise of Susan
(Writer)
Dulcy
(Writer)
The Dark Star
(Writer)
Within the Law
(Adaptation)
Min and Bill
(Writer)
Just Around the Corner
(Writer)
Humoresque
(Writer)
Back Pay
(Writer)
The Nth Commandment
(Producer)
The Nth Commandment
(Writer)
The Lady
(Writer)
Lazybones
(Scenario Writer)
Hands Across the Border
(Story)
The Red Mill
(Scenario Writer)
Mr. Wu
(Writer)
The Red Mill
(Adaptation)
A Daughter of the Sea
(Story)
Riffraff
(Story)
Tillie Wakes Up
(Writer)
A Circus Romance
(Story)
The Social Leper
(Writer)
A Square Deal
(Writer)
Forget-Me-Not
(Writer)
The Restless Sex
(Writer)
Thank You
(Screenplay)
Fanchon, the Cricket
(Writer)
The Song of Love
(Adaptation)
The Eternal Flame
(Writer)
The Voice from the Minaret
(Adaptation)
A Little Princess
(Writer)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
(Writer)
The Big House
(Writer)
Pollyanna
(Adaptation)
Secrets
(Adaptation)
Sonny
(Adaptation)
The Dark Angel
(Writer)
His Supreme Moment
(Adaptation)
Rags
(Writer)
The Foundling
(Writer)
The Big House
(Writer)
The Pirate
(Additional Writing)
Cynara
(Adaptation)
Molly and Me
(Novel)
The French Doll
(Writer)
East Is West
(Writer)
On Dangerous Ground
(Writer)
Love from a Stranger
(Adaptation)
Bringing Up Father
(Writer)
Madame Pompadour
(Writer)
Dinner at Eight
(Writer)
The Amazons
(Writer)
The Flapper
(Screenplay)
The Flapper
(Story)
Tarnish
(Screenplay)
Graustark
(Adaptation)
A Girl's Folly
(Writer)
The Stolen Paradise
(Writer)
He Comes Up Smiling
(Writer)
The Temple Of Dusk
(Writer)
The Callahans and the Murphys
(Writer)
Green Hell
(Screenplay)
Green Hell
(Original Story)
Straight Is the Way
(Writer)
Camille
(Screenplay)
The New York Hat
(Writer)
Zander the Great
(Screenplay)
Graustark
(Screenplay)
Secrets
(Screenplay)
The Voice from the Minaret
(Screenplay)
The Scarlet Letter
(Screenplay)
The Son of the Sheik
(Screenplay)
The Poor Little Rich Girl
(Writer)
Knight Without Armour
(Writer)
Lazybones
(Screenplay)
Stella Dallas
(Screenplay)
Lightnin'
(Screenplay)
Pollyanna
(Screenplay)
Partners Again
(Screenplay)
A Thief in Paradise
(Screenplay)
Within the Law
(Screenplay)
Secrets
(Screenplay)
His Supreme Moment
(Screenplay)
The Song of Love
(Screenplay)
Cytherea
(Screenplay)
The Cinema Murder
(Screenplay)
Sonny
(Screenplay)
Cynara
(Screenplay)
Good News
(Screenplay)
Ridin' the Wind
(Writer)
The Two-Gun Man
(Co-Writer)
Jesse James
(Screenplay)
Jesse James
(Story)
Don Mike
(Story)
The Crucial Test
(Writer)
Dinner at Eight
(Screenplay)
Sherlock Brown
(Writer)
A Woman Alone
(Writer)
The French Doll
(Scenario Writer)
The Sunset Legion
(Story)
The Sunset Legion
(Scenario Writer)
Esmeralda
(Writer)
The Love Piker
(Scenario Writer)
All Man
(Writer)
The Summer Girl
(Writer)
Beloved Adventuress
(Screenplay)
Beloved Adventuress
(Story)
Darkest Russia
(Writer)
The Crimson Dove
(Writer)
The Divorce Game
(Writer)
Hold Your Man
(Writer)
The Champ
(Story)
The Champ
(Original Story)