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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood Book
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Amazon Review
Screenwriter Frances Marion (1888-1973) is the central subject of this excellent book, but mega-star Mary Pickford, journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, bit-player-turned-gossip-columnist Hedda Hopper, and other high-powered female friends get nearly equal time. The author's skillful mix of biography with Hollywood history results in a densely textured portrait of an industry in formation and the intelligent, ambitious women who seized the opportunities it offered them for creative expression and financial independence. The text also instills new appreciation for the artistry of silent movies.
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Product Description
Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwritermale or femalefor almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ."
- 0520214927
- 9780520214927
- C Beauchamp
- 23 June 1998
- University of California Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 475
- New Ed
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