Frances Marion
Wrote, co-wrote or adapted some 150 screenplays from 1915 to 1939, leaving a significant stamp on American movies of both the silent and sound eras. A former journalist (she was one of the first female war correspondents), Marion entered films as an actress and made the transition to writer in 1915. She scripted vehicles for Mary Pickford and Marion Davies, among others, and was especially adept at literary adaptations; the scripts for "Stella Dallas" and "The Scarlet Letter" (both 1926) are superb examples of book-to-film restructuring. In the early 1920s Marion directed three films from her own scripts. Her third husband, from 1919 to his death in 1928, was actor Fred Thomson; her fourth, from 1930 until their divorce the following year, was director George Hill.
Filmography
Movies
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89% |
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Camille | Screenwriter | - | 1936 |
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Riffraff | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
80% |
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Going Hollywood | Writer | - | 1933 |
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Peg O' My Heart | Writer | - | 1933 |
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The Prizefighter and the Lady | Writer | - | 1933 |
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Blondie of the Follies | Screenwriter | - | 1932 |
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The Secret Six |
Screenwriter, Writer |
- | 1931 |
75% |
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The Big House | Writer | - | 1930 |
79% |
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The Rogue Song | Writer | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Excess Baggage | Writer | - | 1928 |
100% |
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The Wind | Writer | - | 1928 |
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Mr. Wu | Screenwriter | - | 1927 |
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The Red Mill | Writer | - | 1927 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Callahans and the Murphys | Writer | - | 1927 |
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The Winning of Barbara Worth | Screenwriter | - | 1926 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The First Year | Screenwriter | - | 1926 |
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The Scarlet Letter | Screenwriter | - | 1926 |
86% | No Score Yet | The Lady | Screenwriter | - | 1925 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Dark Angel | Screenwriter | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zander the Great | Writer | - | 1925 |
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Lazybones | Writer | - | 1925 |
83% | No Score Yet | Graustark | Screenwriter | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Abraham Lincoln | Screenwriter | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The French Doll | Screenwriter | - | 1923 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Within the Law | Screenwriter | - | 1923 |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy | Minna's Son (Character) | - | 1921 |
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The Love Light |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1921 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Humoresque | Writer | - | 1920 |
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Pollyanna | Writer | - | 1920 |
89% | No Score Yet | The Flapper | Screenwriter | - | 1920 |
100% | No Score Yet | Anne of Green Gables | Screenwriter | - | 1919 |
95% |
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Hearts of the World | The Boy's Third Brother (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | M'Liss | Screenwriter | - | 1918 |
90% |
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Stella Maris | Writer | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He Comes Up Smiling | Screenwriter | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johanna Enlists | Screenwriter | - | 1918 |
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Amarilly of Clothesline Alley | Writer | - | 1918 |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Writer | - | 1917 |
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The Poor Little Rich Girl | Screenwriter | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Girl's Folly | Writer | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bohemians | Screenwriter | - | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fanchon the Cricket | Screenwriter | - | 1915 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rags | Screenwriter | - | 1915 |