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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
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52min
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2001
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Image Entertainment
Synopsis: Though there may have been an unofficial glass ceiling for most women in the motion picture industry of the 1920s and 1930s, for many years the most successful and highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood was a former actress named Frances Marion. Born in 1899, Marion entered the fledgling movie industry in the pre-WWI years. After a few nominal leading-lady roles, she turned to writing rather than appearing in films, her talents nurtured by another female film pioneer, superstar Mary Pickford. Thanks ... Full Synopsis
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