Frances Marion

Autor, Regie, Produzent

18. November 1888 — 12. Mai 1973 (84 Jahre)
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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  • Zu klug für die Liebe
    Zu klug für die Liebe1945
  • Entfesselte Elemente
    Entfesselte Elemente1926

Bekannt aus

  • Der Champ
    Der Champ1979
  • Stürme
    Stürme1928
  • Der Champ
    Der Champ1931
  • Die Kameliendame
    Die Kameliendame1936
  • Hölle hinter Gittern
    Hölle hinter Gittern1930
  • Anna Christie
    Anna Christie1930
  • Dinner um acht
    Dinner um acht1933
  • Der Sohn des Scheichs
    Der Sohn des Scheichs1926
  • The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter1927
  • Die fremde Mutter
    Die fremde Mutter1930
  • Stella Maris
    Stella Maris1918
  • The Poor Little Rich Girl
    The Poor Little Rich Girl1917
  • The Red Mill
    The Red Mill1927
  • Der Boxer und die Lady
    Der Boxer und die Lady1933
  • Emma, die Perle
    Emma, die Perle1932
  • The Secret 6
    The Secret 61931
  • Der Pirat
    Der Pirat1948
  • Die gute Erde
    Die gute Erde1937
  • Entfesselte Elemente
    Entfesselte Elemente1926
  • The Toll of the Sea
    The Toll of the Sea1922

Filmografie

2016
Et la femme créa Hollywood · as Self (archive Footage)
2000

1979
The Champ · as Story
1953
The Clown · as Story
1940
Green Hell · as Original Story
1937
Knight Without Armor · as Adaptation
1933
Going Hollywood · as Story
1933
1933
Peg o' My Heart · as Adaptation
1933
Secrets · as Adaptation
1932
Cynara · as Adaptation
1932
Emma · as Story
1930
Anna Christie · as Adaptation
1930
Good News · as Scenario Writer
1930
The Big House · as Story
1928
The Awakening · as Story
1928
The Cossacks · as Adaptation
1927
The Red Mill · as Scenario Writer
1926
The Scarlet Letter · as Adaptation
1926
The Son of the Sheik · as Adaptation
1926
Partners Again · as Adaptation
1925
Stella Dallas · as Adaptation
1925
Lazybones · as Scenario Writer
1925
Lightnin' · as Adaptation
1925
Zander the Great · as Adaptation
1924
Thundering Hoofs · as Unconfirmed
1924
Secrets · as Adaptation
1923
The Song of Love · as Adaptation
1923
Within the Law · as Adaptation
1922
1920
Go and Get It · as Scenario Writer
1920
The Flapper · as Story
1920
Pollyanna · as Adaptation
1919
The Cinema Murder · as Scenario Writer
1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl · as Scenario Writer