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Frances Marion

Highest Rated: 100% The Dark Angel (1925)

Lowest Rated: 75% The Big House (1930)

Birthday: Nov 18, 1888

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA

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.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% The Dark Angel
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100% Anne of Green Gables
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100% 89% The Wind
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95% 31% Hearts of the World
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90% 75% Stella Maris
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89% 83% Camille
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89% The Flapper
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86% The Lady
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83% Graustark
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80% 55% Going Hollywood
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Filmography

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Camille 89% 83% 1936 Screenwriter Riffraff 48% 1935 Screenwriter Going Hollywood 80% 55% 1933 Writer Peg O' My Heart 64% 1933 Writer The Prizefighter and the Lady 64% 1933 Writer Blondie of the Follies 43% 1932 Screenwriter The Secret Six 27% 1931 Screenwriter, Writer The Big House 75% 71% 1930 Writer The Rogue Song 79% 14% 1930 Writer Excess Baggage 1928 Writer The Wind 100% 89% 1928 Writer Mr. Wu 43% 1927 Screenwriter The Red Mill 69% 1927 Writer The Callahans and the Murphys 1927 Writer The Winning of Barbara Worth 45% 1926 Screenwriter The First Year 1926 Screenwriter The Scarlet Letter 76% 1926 Screenwriter The Lady 86% 1925 Screenwriter The Dark Angel 100% 1925 Screenwriter Zander the Great 1925 Writer Lazybones 91% 1925 Writer Graustark 83% 1925 Screenwriter Abraham Lincoln 1924 Screenwriter The French Doll 1923 Screenwriter Within the Law 1923 Screenwriter
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