Without Lying Down
Author | : Cari Beauchamp |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 1998-04-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520921382 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520921380 |
Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Download or read book Without Lying Down written by Cari Beauchamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."