Frances Marion
female
Born on November 18, 1888 (136 years old)
Passed Away on May 12, 1973
From San Francisco, California, USA
Known for Writing
Biography
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.
Cast Credits
Crew Credits
- 1989
- 1979
- 1948
- 1945
- 1940
- 1937
- 1936
- 1933
- 1932
- 1931
- 1930
The Big House
as
Story
1930
The Big House
as
Dialogue
1930
The Big House
as
Writer
1930
Anna Christie
as
Screenplay
1930
Good News
as
Scenario Writer
1930
Let Us Be Gay
as
Writer
1930
Let Us Be Gay
as
Dialogue
1930
Anna Christie
as
Adaptation
1930
The Rogue Song
as
Writer
1930
Min and Bill
as
Writer
1930
The Big House
as
Writer
1930
Good News
as
Screenplay
1930
- 1929
- 1928
- 1927
The Scarlet Letter
as
Adaptation
1927
Love
as
Writer
1927
The Red Mill
as
Adaptation
1927
The Red Mill
as
Scenario Writer
1927
Mr. Wu
as
Writer
1927
Madame Pompadour
as
Writer
1927
The Callahans and the Murphys
as
Writer
1927
The Scarlet Letter
as
Screenplay
1927
Jesse James
as
Screenplay
1927
Jesse James
as
Story
1927
Don Mike
as
Story
1927
- 1926
The Son of the Sheik
as
Adaptation
1926
The Winning of Barbara Worth
as
Writer
1926
Partners Again
as
Adaptation
1926
The First Year
as
Writer
1926
Paris at Midnight
as
Writer
1926
The Tough Guy
as
Story
1926
Hands Across the Border
as
Story
1926
The Son of the Sheik
as
Screenplay
1926
Partners Again
as
Screenplay
1926
The Two-Gun Man
as
Co-Writer
1926
- 1925
A Thief in Paradise
as
Adaptation
1925
Stella Dallas
as
Adaptation
1925
Lightnin'
as
Adaptation
1925
Zander the Great
as
Adaptation
1925
The Lady
as
Writer
1925
Lazybones
as
Scenario Writer
1925
Thank You
as
Screenplay
1925
His Supreme Moment
as
Adaptation
1925
The Dark Angel
as
Writer
1925
Graustark
as
Adaptation
1925
Lazybones
as
Screenplay
1925
Stella Dallas
as
Screenplay
1925
Graustark
as
Screenplay
1925
Lightnin'
as
Screenplay
1925
A Thief in Paradise
as
Screenplay
1925
His Supreme Moment
as
Screenplay
1925
Zander the Great
as
Screenplay
1925
Ridin' the Wind
as
Writer
1925
- 1924
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
as
Screenplay
1924
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
as
Story
1924
Sundown
as
Writer
1924
Secrets
as
Adaptation
1924
Cytherea
as
Adaptation
1924
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
as
Writer
1924
Through the Dark
as
Writer
1924
Tarnish
as
Screenplay
1924
Secrets
as
Screenplay
1924
Cytherea
as
Screenplay
1924
- 1923
The Eagle's Talons
as
Writer
1923
The Toll of the Sea
as
Story
1923
Potash and Perlmutter
as
Writer
1923
The Famous Mrs. Fair
as
Screenplay
1923
The Song of Love
as
Director
1923
The Toll of the Sea
as
Writer
1923
Dulcy
as
Writer
1923
Within the Law
as
Adaptation
1923
The Nth Commandment
as
Writer
1923
The Nth Commandment
as
Producer
1923
The Voice from the Minaret
as
Adaptation
1923
The Song of Love
as
Adaptation
1923
The French Doll
as
Writer
1923
Within the Law
as
Screenplay
1923
The Song of Love
as
Screenplay
1923
The Voice from the Minaret
as
Screenplay
1923
The French Doll
as
Scenario Writer
1923
The Love Piker
as
Scenario Writer
1923
- 1922
- 1921
- 1920
- 1919
- 1918
- 1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
as
Scenario Writer
1917
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as
Writer
1917
The Web of Desire
as
Writer
1917
- no image
Tillie Wakes Up
as
Writer
1917
The Social Leper
as
Writer
1917
A Square Deal
as
Writer
1917
Forget-Me-Not
as
Writer
1917
A Little Princess
as
Writer
1917
On Dangerous Ground
as
Writer
1917
The Amazons
as
Writer
1917
A Girl's Folly
as
Writer
1917
The Stolen Paradise
as
Writer
1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
as
Writer
1917
A Woman Alone
as
Writer
1917
Beloved Adventuress
as
Screenplay
1917
Beloved Adventuress
as
Story
1917
Darkest Russia
as
Writer
1917
The Crimson Dove
as
Writer
1917
- no image
The Divorce Game
as
Writer
1917
A Hungry Heart
as
Writer
1917
- 1916
The Heart of a Hero
as
Writer
1916
The Gilded Cage
as
Writer
1916
The Hidden Scar
as
Writer
1916
- no image
The Revolt
as
Writer
1916
A Woman's Way
as
Writer
1916
The Rise of Susan
as
Writer
1916
A Circus Romance
as
Story
1916
The Foundling
as
Writer
1916
The Crucial Test
as
Writer
1916
All Man
as
Writer
1916
The Summer Girl
as
Writer
1916
The Battle of Hearts
as
Writer
1916
- 1915
- 1912
