Frances Marion
- Sceneggiatura
- 18 novembre 1888 · San Francisco, California, USA
- 12 maggio 1973
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Et la femme créa Hollywood · In persona
- Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood · In persona
- Dinner at Eight · Original Film Writer
- Il campione · Soggetto
- Il pirata · Additional Writing
- Molly and Me · Romanzo
- Inferno verde · Sceneggiatura, Soggetto
- L'ultimo treno da Mosca · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- L'ora del supplizio · Sceneggiatura, Adaptation
- Margherita Gauthier · Sceneggiatura
- Riffraff · Sceneggiatura, Soggetto
- Pranzo alle otto · Sceneggiatura
- L'idolo delle donne · Soggetto
- L'uomo che voglio · Sceneggiatura
- Segreti · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Infedele · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Blondie of the Follies · Sceneggiatura, Soggetto
- Ingratitudine · Soggetto
- Il campione · Sceneggiatura, Soggetto
- Révolte dans la prison · Sceneggiatura
- The Secret Six · Sceneggiatura
- Anna Christie · Adaptation
- Min and Bill · Sceneggiatura
- El presidio · Sceneggiatura
- Good News · Scenario Writer, Sceneggiatura
- Let Us Be Gay · Dialogue, Sceneggiatura
- Carcere · Dialogue, Soggetto
- Anna Christie · Sceneggiatura
- The Rogue Song · Sceneggiatura
- Ritorna il sole · Sceneggiatura
- The Masks of the Devil · Sceneggiatura
- The Awakening · Soggetto
- Il vento · Sceneggiatura
- The Cossacks · Adaptation
- Kit Carson · Soggetto
- The Sunset Legion · Soggetto, Scenario Writer
- Bringing Up Father · Sceneggiatura
- The Pioneer Scout · Sceneggiatura
- Anna Karenina · Sceneggiatura
- Jesse James · Sceneggiatura, Soggetto
- Madame Pompadour · Sceneggiatura
- The Callahans and the Murphys · Sceneggiatura
- Mr. Wu · Sceneggiatura
- The Red Mill · Scenario Writer, Adaptation
- Don Mike · Soggetto
- La lettera rossa · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Fiore del deserto · Sceneggiatura
- Lone Hand Saunders · Soggetto
- Il figlio dello sceicco · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- The Two-Gun Man · Co-Writer
- Hands Across the Border · Soggetto
- Paris at Midnight · Sceneggiatura
- Partners Again · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- The Tough Guy · Soggetto
- The First Year · Sceneggiatura
- Stella · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Lazybones · Scenario Writer, Sceneggiatura
- Thank You · Sceneggiatura
- The Dark Angel · Sceneggiatura
- Graustark · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Lightnin' · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Ridin' the Wind · Sceneggiatura
- A Thief in Paradise · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Zander the Great · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- His Supreme Moment · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Una vera signora · Sceneggiatura
- Sundown · Sceneggiatura
- In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter · Sceneggiatura
- Tarnish · Sceneggiatura
- Cytherea · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- Secrets · Adaptation, Sceneggiatura
- The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln · Soggetto, Sceneggiatura
- The Mask of Lopez · Sceneggiatura
- Through the Dark · Sceneggiatura
- The Song of Love · Regia, Adaptation
- Potash and Perlmutter · Sceneggiatura
- The French Doll · Sceneggiatura, Scenario Writer
- Dulcy · Sceneggiatura
- The Love Piker · Scenario Writer
- The Eagle's Talons · Sceneggiatura