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Without Lying Down - Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (Paperback, Revised Ed.)
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A biography of the highest-paid female scriptwriter in Hollywood
becomes an exploration of the work and sustaining friendships of
the leading women of early cinema. Until now Frances Marion has
been largely absent from the screenwriters' pantheon, despite a
five-decade career that yielded 325 scripts, many for top films
(The Champ, Son of the Sheik, Dinner at Eight). Seasoned film
reporter Beauchamp (coauthor, Hollywood on the Riviera, 1992)
spends no time taking umbrage. Instead she jumps into Marion Benson
Owens's two early marriages, a fateful encounter with Marie
Dressier as a reporter for Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, and
early days in Los Angeles, where she met lifetime friends Adela
Rogers and Mary Pickford, and director Lois Weber, who renamed her
Frances Marion. After her first scenario in 1915, an already
crowded life became dizzying: It included stints with Famous
Players, First National, and MGM, new friendships with Hedda Hopper
and Anita Loos, and a happy and creatively fruitful marriage to
1920s western star Fred Thomson until his death in 1928. Beauchamp
admirably marshals her research and writes with tempered prose.
Still, when her subject is so well placed that she witnesses young
George Gershwin playing a new piece called Rhapsody in Blue and
introduces directors to a tall guy named Frank (later Gary) Cooper,
it's hard not to become a little breathless. There's also a
gossipy, epic quality that inspires page-turning: Will
entertainment mogul Joseph Kennedy hurt Thomson's career? What will
Marion do at MGM after her beloved friend Irving Thalberg dies? At
the book's conclusion, what stands out are the friendships. As
Marion says, " 'Contrary to the assertion that women do all in
their power to hinder one another's progress, I have found that it
has always been one of my own sex who had given me a helping hand
when I needed it.' " A triumph of discovery in the often
strip-mined quarry of film history. (Kirkus Reviews)
Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter--male or
female--for almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films
and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ".
Here author Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with
social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion
and her many female colleagues who shaped film making from 1912
throughout the 1940s. 62 photos.
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 1998 |
First published: |
1998 |
Authors: |
Cari Beauchamp
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
475 |
Edition: |
Revised Ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-21492-7 |
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