Cari Beauchamp

“Frances maintained they took care of each other and claimed “I owe my greatest success to women. Contrary to the assertion that…

— Cari Beauchamp

“While Photoplay mused that “Strangely enough, women outrank men as continuity writers,” it wasn’t strange to them. Women had always found sanctuary…

— Cari Beauchamp

“Privately, she was proud of her Oscar for The Big House because she had conquered a variety of obstacles to create a…

— Cari Beauchamp

“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

“Eventually Frances was credited with writing 325 scripts covering every conceivable genre. She also directed and produced half a dozen films, was…

— Cari Beauchamp

“There was Mary Pickford, who called Frances “the pillar of my career,” for she had written Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna, A…

— Cari Beauchamp

“As Frances Marion rose to accept the Academy Award for Screenwriting for her original story The Big House, she became the first…

— Cari Beauchamp

“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…

— Cari Beauchamp

“Her friendships were as legendary as her stories and some of the best were with her fellow writers for during the teens,…

— Cari Beauchamp

“Los Angeles in 1912 was a sprawling flatland stretching between the ocean and the mountains. Within a thirty-five-mile radius, there were forty…

— Cari Beauchamp

“George Cukor was still a young emerging talent at RKO, but they were to become lifelong friends after making Dinner at Eight…

— Cari Beauchamp

“Today, names of screenwriters like Zoe Akins, Jeanie Macpherson, Beulah Marie Dix, Lenore Coffee, Anita Loos, June Mathis, Bess Meredyth, Jane Murfin,…

— Cari Beauchamp

“And there was Adela Rogers St. Johns, her friend since their girlhood in San Francisco. Adela would also be nominated for Best…

— Cari Beauchamp

“Lillian was determined that her next role would be Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and assumed she only needed…

— Cari Beauchamp

“The vastness, the immensity, the awfulness of what I saw as I kept moving along with the front line engagements was utterly…

— Cari Beauchamp

“She would have four husbands and dozens of lovers and tell her best friends she spent her life “searching for a man…

— Cari Beauchamp

“When live entertainment was not available, women delivered the film and ran the projectors for the hundreds of movies that were shown…

— Cari Beauchamp