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

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
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/23/1998
Pages: 475
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.81w x 1.18d
ISBN13: 9780520214927
ISBN10: 0520214927
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Performing Arts | Film | Screenwriting

About the Author
Cari Beauchamp is the coauthor of Hollywood on the Riviera(1992).