“The vastness, the immensity, the awfulness of what I saw as I kept moving along with the front line engagements was utterly beyond my powers of comprehension, let alone my ability to describe or scenarioize [sic]. . . . I… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Frances maintained they took care of each other and claimed “I owe my greatest success to women. Contrary to the assertion that women do… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“While Photoplay mused that “Strangely enough, women outrank men as continuity writers,” it wasn’t strange to them. Women had always found sanctuary in writing;… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Privately, she was proud of her Oscar for The Big House because she had conquered a variety of obstacles to create a realistic film… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“At twenty-five, Marion had already developed the philosophy to “take failure with my chin up and success, when it comes, in stride.” — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Eventually Frances was credited with writing 325 scripts covering every conceivable genre. She also directed and produced half a dozen films, was the first… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“There was Mary Pickford, who called Frances “the pillar of my career,” for she had written Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna, A Little Princess,… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“As Frances Marion rose to accept the Academy Award for Screenwriting for her original story The Big House, she became the first woman writer… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Their task was to film the work of the Allied women. More than 20,000 American women served overseas during the war—10,000 as nurses in… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Her friendships were as legendary as her stories and some of the best were with her fellow writers for during the teens, 1920s, and… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles in 1912 was a sprawling flatland stretching between the ocean and the mountains. Within a thirty-five-mile radius, there were forty incorporated towns,… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“George Cukor was still a young emerging talent at RKO, but they were to become lifelong friends after making Dinner at Eight and Camille… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Today, names of screenwriters like Zoe Akins, Jeanie Macpherson, Beulah Marie Dix, Lenore Coffee, Anita Loos, June Mathis, Bess Meredyth, Jane Murfin, Adela Rogers… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
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