Without Lying Down
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
The highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood was a woman, and the industry forgot on purpose.
Frances Marion wrote more than three hundred films, won two Academy Awards, and was for a period the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood, working alongside Mary Pickford and Marie Dressler in an industry that had not yet decided writing was a man’s job. Beauchamp uses her career to track the business itself, from the improvised early years to the studio system that pushed women out.
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Marya E. Gates
This essential text focuses on the life of pioneering screenwriter Frances Marion, once the highest-paid professional in her field, while seamlessly weaving in the careers of other women in early Hollywood, including stars Marie Dressler and Mary Pickford.
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