Without Lying down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood - Hardcover

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Judi A Rutz (Author photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. 475, [5] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. Filmography. Index. The dust jacket has some wear and soiling, especially around the edges. Inscribed by the author on the second fep. The inscription reads: "For Amanda - With great admiration for what you've accomplished and looking forward to what you do next - With respect & affection Cari Beauchamp April 29, 2001". Draws on personal letters, journals, and interviews with family members and colleagues to capture the life and times of Frances Marion. A biography of Frances Marion, one of the earliest--and for many years the most successful--screenwriters in Hollywood. Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter--male or female--or almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing 'The Big House' and 'The Champ. ' Cari Beauchamp is the coauthor of Hollywood on the Riviera (1992). Carol Ann "Cari" Beauchamp (September 12, 1949 December 14, 2023) was an American author, historian, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She authored the biography Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, which was subsequently made into a documentary film. She was the resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation. From an appreciation by Mariana Brandman, found on line. The winner of two Academy Awards, Frances Marion is credited with writing more than 130 produced films during Hollywood's silent and early sound eras. Her female-driven films showcased women's strengths while delighting popular audiences. Marion Benson Owens was born on November 18, 1888 in San Francisco. As a teenager, Marion sold her stories, poems, and artwork to magazines. In 1906, she married her 19-year-old instructor from the Art Institute, Wesley de Lappe. Following the advice of family friend and acclaimed writer Jack London, to "go forth and live" so that she could capture the human spirit in her art, Marion undertook a series of odd jobs such as telephone operator and fruit cannery worker. Between her work and her artistic pursuits, she and de Lappe divorced in 1911. Marion worked as a commercial illustrator and as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. Marion married wealthy businessman Robert Pike and in 1912 the couple moved to Los Angeles. Soon, she fell into the orbit of the nascent film industry in Hollywood. Vaudeville star Marie Dressler, whom Marion had interviewed back in San Francisco, became a close friend and introduced her to others in the field. A burgeoning industry that lacked established gender norms, the movies offered an array of opportunities for women. Marion went to work for director Lois Weber and assumed the professional name Frances Marion. Marion was interested in working behind the camera, but took on a variety of duties for Weber: she acted, shifted scenery, wrote press releases, and cut film. She learned on the job how much she loved making movies and became determined to write them. It was silent film star Mary Pickford who gave Marion the opportunity to write for the screen for the Famous Players-Lasky studio (later known as Paramount Pictures). Marion then went to New York to write for World Films, where she rose to head of the scenario department (before screenplays were common, scenarios served as roadmaps for the actors). She became the highest-paid writer in the film business. Marion returned to Los Angeles and resumed her collaboration with Pickford, writing the successful 1917 films Poor Little Rich Girl, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and The Little Princess, and 1918's Stella Maris. The two found a winning formula with Marion writing spirited and irreverent little-girl roles for Pickford. Marion was making $50,000 per year by 1918, but she left it behind to become a war correspondent for the government. S. Artikel-Nr. 88950

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