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.

Фільмографія

• 1989Dinner at Eight — Original Film Writer
• 1979The Champ — Story
• 1948The Pirate — Additional Writing
• 1945Molly and Me — Novel
• 1940Green Hell — Original Story, Screenplay
• 1937Knight Without Armour — Adaptation, Writer
• 1937Love from a Stranger — Screenplay, Adaptation
• 1936Camille — Screenplay
• 1936Riffraff — Screenplay, Story
• 1933Hold Your Man — Writer
• 1933Secrets — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1933The Prizefighter and the Lady — Story
• 1933Обід о восьмій — Screenplay
• 1932Blondie of the Follies — Screenplay, Story
• 1932Cynara — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1932Emma — Story
• 1931The Big House — Writer
• 1931The Champ — Writer, Story
• 1931The Secret Six — Writer
• 1930Anna Christie — Screenplay
• 1930Anna Christie — Adaptation
• 1930Good News — Scenario Writer, Screenplay
• 1930Let Us Be Gay — Writer, Dialogue
• 1930Min and Bill — Writer
• 1930The Big House — Story, Dialogue, Writer
• 1930The Big House — Writer
• 1930The Rogue Song — Writer
• 1929Their Own Desire — Screenplay
• 1928Bringing Up Father — Writer
• 1928Kit Carson — Story
• 1928The Awakening — Story
• 1928The Cossacks — Adaptation
• 1928The Masks of the Devil — Writer
• 1928The Pioneer Scout — Writer
• 1928The Sunset Legion — Story, Scenario Writer
• 1928The Wind — Screenplay
• 1927Don Mike — Story
• 1927Jesse James — Story, Screenplay
• 1927Love — Writer
• 1927Madame Pompadour — Writer
• 1927Mr. Wu — Writer
• 1927The Callahans and the Murphys — Writer
• 1927The Red Mill — Scenario Writer, Adaptation
• 1927The Scarlet Letter — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1926Hands Across the Border — Story
• 1926Lone Hand Saunders — Story
• 1926Paris at Midnight — Writer
• 1926Partners Again — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1926The First Year — Writer
• 1926The Son of the Sheik — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1926The Tough Guy — Story
• 1926The Two-Gun Man — Co-Writer
• 1926The Winning of Barbara Worth — Writer
• 1925A Thief in Paradise — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1925Graustark — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1925His Supreme Moment — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1925Lazybones — Scenario Writer, Screenplay
• 1925Lightnin' — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1925Ridin' the Wind — Writer
• 1925Stella Dallas — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1925Thank You — Screenplay
• 1925The Dark Angel — Writer
• 1925The Lady — Writer
• 1925Zander the Great — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1924Cytherea — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1924In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter — Writer
• 1924Secrets — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1924Sundown — Writer
• 1924Tarnish — Screenplay
• 1924The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln — Screenplay, Story
• 1924The Mask of Lopez — Writer
• 1924Through the Dark — Writer
• 1923Dulcy — Writer
• 1923Potash and Perlmutter — Writer
• 1923The Eagle's Talons — Writer
• 1923The Famous Mrs. Fair — Screenplay
• 1923The French Doll — Writer, Scenario Writer
• 1923The Love Piker — Scenario Writer
• 1923The Nth Commandment — Producer, Writer
• 1923The Song of Love — Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1923The Toll of the Sea — Story, Writer
• 1923The Voice from the Minaret — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1923Within the Law — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1922Back Pay — Writer
• 1922East Is West — Writer
• 1922Sherlock Brown — Writer
• 1922Sonny — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1922The Eternal Flame — Writer
• 1922The Primitive Lover — Writer
• 1921Just Around the Corner — Director, Writer
• 1921Straight Is the Way — Writer
• 1921The Love Light — Director, Writer
• 1920Go and Get It — Scenario Writer
• 1920Humoresque — Writer
• 1920Pollyanna — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1920The Flapper — Story, Screenplay
• 1920The Restless Sex — Writer
• 1920The World and His Wife — Screenplay
• 1919A Regular Girl — Writer
• 1919Anne of Green Gables — Writer
• 1919Captain Kidd, Jr. — Writer
• 1919The Cinema Murder — Scenario Writer, Screenplay
• 1919The Dark Star — Writer
• 1919The Misleading Widow — Writer
• 1918Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley — Writer
• 1918He Comes Up Smiling — Writer
• 1918How Could You, Jean? — Screenplay
• 1918Johanna Enlists — Writer
• 1918M'Liss — Writer
• 1918Stella Maris — Writer
• 1918The City of Dim Faces — Screenplay
• 1918The Goat — Screenplay, Story
• 1918The Temple Of Dusk — Writer
• 1917A Girl's Folly — Writer
• 1917A Hungry Heart — Writer
• 1917A Little Princess — Writer
• 1917A Square Deal — Writer
• 1917A Woman Alone — Writer
• 1917Beloved Adventuress — Screenplay, Story
• 1917Darkest Russia — Writer
• 1917Forget-Me-Not — Writer
• 1917On Dangerous Ground — Writer
• 1917Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm — Writer
• 1917The Amazons — Writer
• 1917The Crimson Dove — Writer
• 1917The Divorce Game — Writer
• 1917The Poor Little Rich Girl — Scenario Writer
• 1917The Social Leper — Writer
• 1917The Stolen Paradise — Writer
• 1917The Web of Desire — Writer
• 1917Tillie Wakes Up — Writer
• 1916A Circus Romance — Story
• 1916A Woman's Way — Writer
• 1916All Man — Writer
• 1916Bought and Paid For — Writer
• 1916Friday the 13th — Writer
• 1916La Vie de Bohème — Writer
• 1916The Battle of Hearts — Writer
• 1916The Crucial Test — Writer
• 1916The Feast of Life — Screenplay
• 1916The Foundling — Writer
• 1916The Gilded Cage — Writer
• 1916The Heart of a Hero — Writer
• 1916The Hidden Scar — Writer
• 1916The Revolt — Writer
• 1916The Rise of Susan — Writer
• 1916The Social Highwayman — Writer
• 1916The Summer Girl — Writer
• 1916The Yellow Passport — Scenario Writer
• 1916Then I'll Come Back to You — Writer
• 1915A Daughter of the Sea — Story
• 1915A Girl of Yesterday — Rosanna Danford
• 1915A Sister's Burden — Writer
• 1915Camille — Screenplay
• 1915Esmeralda — Writer
• 1915Fanchon, the Cricket — Writer
• 1915Rags — Writer
• 1912The New York Hat — Writer

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2016The Women Who Run Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood — Self (archive footage)