Without Lying Down : Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

Cari Beauchamp
9780520214927
0-520-21492-7

Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter--male or female--for almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ". Here.

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author Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped film making from 1912 throughout the 1940s. 62 photos.