Biography
s Marion (November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards.
Born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, she worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during World War I. On her return home, she moved to Los Angeles and was hired as a writing assistant, an actress and general assistant by "Lois Weber Productions", a film company owned and operated by pioneer female film director Lois Weber.She has a face as an actor, but she preferred a work that she isn't in the camera. She learned how to write a scenario from Weber. Marion wrote a story for a movie for her, but it burned before it was released.
As "s Marion", she wrote many scripts for actress/filmmaker Mary Pickford, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Poor Little Rich Girl, as well as scripts for numerous other successful films of the 1920s and 1930s.Marion went to New York for her job, and her husband decline to live with her and divorced. She became the first female to win an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1930 for the film The Big House, she received the Academy Award for Best Story for The Champ in 1932, both featuring Wallace Beery, and co-wrote Min and Bill starring her friend Marie Dressler and Beery in 1930. She was credited with writing 300 scripts and over 130 produced films. She directed and occasionally appeared in some of Mary Pickford's early movies.
For many years she was under contract to MGM Studios, but, independently wealthy, she left Hollywood in 1946 to devote more time to writing stage plays and novels.
s Marion published a memoir Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood in 1972. Marion died the following year of a ruptured aneurysm in Los Angeles.
Filmography
all 149
Movies 149
Writer 130
Screenplay 8
Director 3
self 2
The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)
Without Lying Down: s Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000)
Dinner at Eight (1989)
The Champ (1979)
The Clown (1953)
The Pirate (1948)
Green Hell (1940)
Camille (1936)
Riffraff (1936)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Secrets (1933)
Cynara (1932)
Emma (1932)
The Champ (1931)
Men Behind Bars (1931)
The Big House (1931)
The Secret Six (1931)
Anna Christie (1930)
Min and Bill (1930)
The Big House (1930)
Wu Li Chang (1930)
Good News (1930)
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
The Big House (1930)
Anna Christie (1930)
The Rogue Song (1930)
Their Own Desire (1929)
The Awakening (1928)
Excess Baggage (1928)
The Wind (1928)
The Cossacks (1928)
Love (1927)
Jesse James (1927)
Mr. Wu (1927)
The Red Mill (1927)
Don Mike (1927)
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
The Two-Gun Man (1926)
Partners Again (1926)
The Tough Guy (1926)
The First Year (1926)
Stella Dallas (1925)
Lazybones (1925)
Thank You (1925)
The Dark Angel (1925)
Graustark (1925)
Lightnin' (1925)
Ridin' the Wind (1925)
A Thief in Paradise (1925)
The Lady (1925)
Sundown (1924)
Tarnish (1924)
Cytherea (1924)
Secrets (1924)
The Song of Love (1923)
The French Doll (1923)
Dulcy (1923)
The Love Piker (1923)
Within the Law (1923)
Minnie (1922)
East Is West (1922)
Sherlock Brown (1922)
Sonny (1922)
Back Pay (1922)
Just Around the Corner (1921)
The Love Light (1921)
Go and Get It (1920)
Humoresque (1920)
The Flapper (1920)
Pollyanna (1920)
The Dark Star (1919)
Johanna Enlists (1918)
M'Liss (1918)
Stella Maris (1918)
The Amazons (1917)
Forget-Me-Not (1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
A Girl's Folly (1917)
A Square Deal (1917)
Tillie Wakes Up (1917)
A Woman Alone (1917)
The Hidden Scar (1916)
The Gilded Cage (1916)
The Revolt (1916)
A Woman's Way (1916)
The Foundling (1916)
Camille (1915)
A Girl of Yesterday (1915)
Esmeralda (1915)
Rags (1915)
The Foundling (1915)
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Known For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-11-18
Deathday
1973-05-12 (84 years old)
Birth Place
San Francisco, United States
Relationships
Fred Thomson (1919 - 1928), George W. Hill (1930 - 1933)
Citizenships
United States
Also Known As
Frank M. Clifton
Awards
Academy Award for Best Writing, Academy Award for Best Story
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