“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; it was accomplished in private and provided a creative vent when little was expected or accepted… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share
“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; it was accomplished in private and provided a creative vent when little was expected or accepted of a woman other than to be a good wife and mother. For Frances and her friends, a virtue was… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share
“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 Allied woman to cross the Rhine in World War I, and served as the vice president and only woman on the first board of directors of the Screen Writers Guild. She painted, sculpted, spoke several languages… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share
“There was Mary Pickford, who called Frances “the pillar of my career,” for she had written Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna, A Little Princess, and a dozen more of Pickford’s greatest successes. Frances was also her best friend and had seen her through her divorce from Owen Moore and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks; Frances and Mary had even honeymooned with… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share
“As Frances Marion rose to accept the Academy Award for Screenwriting for her original story The Big House, she became the first woman writer to win an Oscar. Since 1917, she had been the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood—male or female—and was hailed as “the all-time best script and story writer the motion picture world has ever produced.” Just forty and… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share
“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 the army and navy and a few thousand under the auspices of the Red Cross, the YMCA, and the Salvation Army. Several hundred women were telephone operators with the Army Signal Corps and still others served… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share
“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
