Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood by Beauchamp, Cari

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520214927)

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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood by Beauchamp, Cari

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

$31.95
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood by Beauchamp, Cari

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

$31.95
Format: Paperback
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Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter-male or female-or almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ."

Author: Cari Beauchamp
ISBN-10: 0520214927
ISBN-13: 9780520214927
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/23/1998
Pages: 475
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.81w x 1.18d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/17/1998 pg. 48
By Cari Beauchamp
By Cari Beauchamp
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Cari Beauchamp is the author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (UC Press, 1998), editor and annotator of Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (UC Press, 2003) and Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s (UC Press ) She also wrote Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years; My First Time in Hollywood: Stories from the Pioneers, Dreamers and Misfits who made the Movies, and is coauthor of Hollywood on the Riviera (1992). Her documentary films have been nominated for an Emmy and a Writers Guild Award and she is the only person to twice be named an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar. She is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, serves as the resident scholar for the Mary Pickford Foundation and lives in Los Angeles.

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