Frances Marion
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-11-18 (85 years old)
Deathday
1973-05-12
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known As
Frank M. Clifton
Frances Marion
Biography
Frances 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 fac...
Acting
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1915
as Rosanna Danford
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1915
as Writer
1919
as Writer
1923
as Writer
1924
as Screenplay
1924
1931
as Writer
1937
as Screenplay
1931
as Writer
1936
as Screenplay
1930
as Story
1930
as Dialogue
1918
as Writer
1923
as Story
1924
as Writer
1926
as Adaptation
1927
as Adaptation
1932
as Story
1929
as Screenplay
1926
as Writer
1920
as Screenplay
1979
as Story
1919
as Writer
1919
as Scenario Writer
1921
as Director
1927
as Writer
1930
as Writer
1930
as Screenplay
1928
as Screenplay
1930
as Scenario Writer
1928
as Writer
1930
as Writer
1930
as Dialogue
1917
as Scenario Writer
1930
as Adaptation
1932
as Screenplay
1932
as Story
1928
as Story
1924
as Adaptation
1923
as Writer
1930
as Writer
1924
as Adaptation
1925
as Adaptation
1924
1925
as Adaptation
1926
as Adaptation
1936
as Screenplay
1921
as Writer
1918
as Writer
1922
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1926
as Writer
1919
as Writer
1925
as Adaptation
1918
as Screenplay
1917
as Writer
1923
as Screenplay
1926
as Writer
1926
as Story
1916
as Writer
1933
as Story
1925
as Adaptation
1918
as Screenplay
1924
as Writer
1937
as Adaptation
1916
as Writer
1920
as Scenario Writer
1921
as Director
1923
as Director
1916
as Writer
1916
as Writer
1916
as Writer
1923
as Writer
1918
as Writer
1916
as Writer
1923
as Writer
1919
as Writer
1923
as Adaptation
1930
as Writer
1921
as Writer
1922
as Writer
1920
as Writer
1925
as Writer
1923
as Producer
1923
as Writer
1925
as Scenario Writer
1926
as Story
1927
as Scenario Writer
1927
as Adaptation
1927
as Writer
1915
as Story
1936
as Story
1917
as Writer
1916
as Story
1917
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1920
as Writer
1925
as Screenplay
1915
as Writer
1923
as Adaptation
1922
as Writer
1923
as Adaptation
1917
as Writer
1918
as Writer
1930
as Writer
1920
as Adaptation
1933
as Adaptation
1922
as Adaptation
1925
as Adaptation
1925
as Writer
1915
as Writer
1916
as Writer
1931
as Writer
1948
as Additional Writing
1932
as Adaptation
1945
as Novel
1923
as Writer
1922
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1937
as Adaptation
1928
as Writer
1927
as Writer
1989
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1920
as Story
1920
as Screenplay
1924
as Screenplay
1925
as Adaptation
1917
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1918
as Writer
1918
as Writer
1927
as Writer
1921
as Writer
1940
as Original Story
1940
as Screenplay
1915
as Screenplay
1912
as Writer
1924
as Screenplay
1925
as Screenplay
1923
as Screenplay
1923
as Screenplay
1925
as Screenplay
1919
as Screenplay
1926
as Screenplay
1922
as Screenplay
1917
as Writer
1926
as Screenplay
1925
as Screenplay
1923
as Screenplay
1933
as Screenplay
1924
as Screenplay
1925
as Screenplay
1927
as Screenplay
1925
as Screenplay
1925
as Screenplay
1920
as Screenplay
1925
as Screenplay
1937
as Writer
1930
as Screenplay
1932
as Screenplay
1925
as Writer
1926
as Co-Writer
1927
as Story
1927
as Screenplay
1927
as Story
1916
as Writer
1933
as Screenplay
1922
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1923
as Scenario Writer
1928
as Story
1928
as Scenario Writer
1915
as Writer
1923
as Scenario Writer
1916
as Writer
1916
as Writer
1917
as Screenplay
1917
as Story
1917
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1917
as Writer
1933
as Writer
1931
as Story
1979
as Original Story
1918
as Screenplay
1918
as Story
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