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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% 78% Stella Maris
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89% 84% 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

Movies

Credit
89% 84% Camille Screenwriter - 1936
No Score Yet 47% Riffraff Screenwriter - 1935
80% 55% Going Hollywood Writer - 1933
No Score Yet 64% Peg O' My Heart Writer - 1933
No Score Yet 64% The Prizefighter and the Lady Writer - 1933
No Score Yet 43% Blondie of the Follies Screenwriter - 1932
No Score Yet 27% The Secret Six Screenwriter,
Writer
- 1931
75% 72% The Big House Writer - 1930
79% 14% The Rogue Song Writer - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Excess Baggage Writer - 1928
100% 89% The Wind Writer - 1928
No Score Yet 43% Mr. Wu Screenwriter - 1927
No Score Yet 69% The Red Mill Writer - 1927
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Callahans and the Murphys Writer - 1927
No Score Yet 45% The Winning of Barbara Worth Screenwriter - 1926
No Score Yet No Score Yet The First Year Screenwriter - 1926
No Score Yet 79% 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
No Score Yet 91% 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
No Score Yet 56% Little Lord Fauntleroy Minna's Son (Character) - 1921
No Score Yet 46% The Love Light Director,
Screenwriter
- 1921
No Score Yet No Score Yet Humoresque Writer - 1920
No Score Yet 44% Pollyanna Writer - 1920
89% No Score Yet The Flapper Screenwriter - 1920
100% No Score Yet Anne of Green Gables Screenwriter - 1919
95% 31% Hearts of the World The Boy's Third Brother (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet No Score Yet M'Liss Screenwriter - 1918
90% 78% 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
No Score Yet 44% Amarilly of Clothesline Alley Writer - 1918
No Score Yet 46% Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Writer - 1917
No Score Yet 74% 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