

You can still file a request but no one will be notified. Sorry! We do not have any photo volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. GREAT NEWS! We have 2 volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. GREAT NEWS! We have a volunteer within fifty miles of your requested photo location. GREAT NEWS! We have 2 volunteers within ten miles of your requested photo location.Īlso an additional volunteer within fifty miles.Īlso an additional 2 volunteers within fifty miles. GREAT NEWS! We have a volunteer within ten miles of your requested photo location. This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos You may not upload any more photos to this memorial She published a memoir Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood in 1972. 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. She directed and occasionally appeared in some of Mary Pickford's early movies. She was credited with writing 300 scripts and over 130 produced films. 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. Marion went to New York for her job, and her husband declined to live with her and they divorced. 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. She learned screenwriting from Weber, and wrote one screenplay for her, but then burned it. She could have been an actor, but preferred work behind the camera. 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 worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during World War I. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards. Born born Marion Benson Owens, she is often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. She published a memoir Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood in 1972.Īmerican Journalist, Author, Film Director and Screenwriter.


American Journalist, Author, Film Director and Screenwriter.
