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	Francis Marion - MSN Encarta
		Marion's military career began in 1761, when he led a successful attack against the Cherokee.
		In September 1775 Marion commanded the capture of British forts in Charleston, South Carolina.
		Colonel Banastre Tarleton, a British commander, gave Marion his nickname when he complained that it was impossible to catch the “swamp fox.” Near the end of the war, Marion and American General Nathanael Greene joined forces.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761558037 (306 words)

	Frances Marion
		Marion, who was born in 1888 and died in 1973, called writing "the refuge of the shy," putting a positive spin on the anonymity that went along with the role.
		Frances Marion was quick to tell him that until he stopped casting Davies as an innocent in glamorous costume epics and let her natural comedic talents blossom, Davies didn't have a chance to be a real star.
		Marion's frustration grew as she was ordered to doctor other writers' scripts, and she finally left MGM in 1946 to follow writers like Loos and Rogers St. Johns to New York to write plays and novels.
	www.welcometosilentmovies.com /news/newsarchive/marion.htm (1691 words)

	Frances Marion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frances Marion (November 18, 1888 - May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century.
		Born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, she worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during the World War I.
		As "Frances Marion," she wrote many scripts for actress/filmmaker Mary Pickford, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Poor Little Rich Girl, as well as scripts for numerous other successful films of the 1920s and 1930s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frances_Marion (351 words)

	MMI Tribute: Frances Marion
		Frances Marion was beautiful and talented enough to be an actress, which she was during the early days of her career.
		Frances Marion raised money for the trip with a two-week acting job, only to learn that the film's negative and all the prints had been destroyed in a studio fire.
		Frances Marion never achieved her dream to become a movie producer, but her movies, including "Tillie Wakes Up," "Stella Maris" and "The Wind," are constant staples on late night television and video shelves.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/fmarion-tribute.html (445 words)

	pickford&marion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Marion began as a cub writer for the San Francisco Reporter at the age of nineteen.
		Marion and Pickford enjoyed such a remarkably happy union, that Pickford gave Marion the opportunity to direct one of her films, The Love Light (1921).
		In later years, Marion also directed many of Marion Davies' films, but all in all, she preferred writing, saying that directed was a medium best left to others.
	www.reelwomen.com /PICKMAR.htm (1348 words)

	Without lying down. Frances Marion and the powerful women of early Hollywood
		Cari Beauchamp's meticulously documented biography of the screenwriter Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens to a San Francisco society family in 1888) focuses on the changing fortunes of women in the Hollywood industry from 1912 until 1946.
		These questions are implicit in Beauchamp's study of Frances Marion and the network of women (and prominent men) who supported her career and benefited from the longevity of her success.
		Before she was presented with her Academy Award in 1930, Marion was had to endure an hour-long speech from Joseph Breen (from the Hays office), a joyless reminder of the political manoeuvring required to ensure the passage of some of her 325 scripts onto the screen.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/shorts/reviews/rev0799/fcbr7a.htm (827 words)

	Film & TV: Hollywood Babble On (Austin Chronicle . 07-28-97)
		Beauchamp's research and interviews with the friends and relatives who have outlived Marion (who died in 1973) present a fairly cohesive portrait of a professional known as much for her generosity to friends in need as she was heralded for her conscientiousness, her talent, and her finely honed work ethic.
		In addition to her writing, Marion also found time to devote to industry-wide improvements, such as the formation of the Screen Writers Guild in the 1920s as a means of community and a form of legal protection for the writers in Hollywood who often labor for little or no credit.
		While Marion's rapid ascent up the ladder of success in Hollywood is fascinating in its own right, equally interesting is Beauchamp's ability to tease out a theme of sisterhood and solidarity that seemed so crucial to Marion and her colleagues and friends.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-28-97/austin_screens_feature1.html (1886 words)

	Francis Marion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Marion returned to St. John's and entered politics, championing the American colonies in their quarrel with England.
		In 1775, Marion was elected to the South Carolina Provincial Congress as a representative.
		Marion was quiet and moody, yet humane and forgiving.
	darter.ocps.net /classroom/revolution/marion.htm (362 words)

	women film pioneers - august theme of the month
		Marion's adaption was extremely close to the original text, minus the "hells" and "damns" that were acceptable on stage but not on screen.
		Marion’s friend Marie Dressler was cast as Marthy, the kindly waterfront slattern in whom Anna recognizes a kindred spirit - herself in 40 years.
		Originally, Marion planned Scorpio's death to be poetic justice, trampled to death "in the muck of the stockyards" from which he had come, but the censors decreed a conventional "crime does not pay" solution.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /SPECIAL_THEME/00/08/marion.htm (835 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION- 1999 Francis Marion Plate
		Marion's ancestors were French Huguenots who, escaping from France's religious persecution, had settled along the Santee River.
		Marion led a small guerilla force and embarked on a series of actions aimed at ambushing and sabotaging the enemy.
		Marion served on the committee that wrote the South Carolina's state constitution and finally in 1794 he retired from public life.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /marion9.html (542 words)

	Film & TV: That's Not All She Wrote (Austin Chronicle . 04-05-99)
		Frances Marion worked as a war correspondent before generating more than 150 scenarios and screenplays between the teens and the end of the Thirties.
		The remaining four films in the AFS series were either penned by Marion alone or list her as one of the contributing screenwriters.
		Marion was the highest paid screenwriter of her time (earning upward of $3,000 a week), and also the most sought after.
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-05-99/austin_screens_feature1.html (871 words)

	women film pioneers - august theme of the month
		Marion was born Marion Benson Owens in 1888 in San Francisco to a well-to-do family.
		Her name was changed to Frances Marion and she was signed as an actress, but she learned to cut film, paint back drops, move props and write lines for the extras to mouth.
		Frances Marion, who was at MGM then, too, said she, Loos and Bess Meredyth were consulted on nearly every MGM script during the 1930s.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /SPECIAL_THEME/00/08/filmmakers.htm (6257 words)

	Frances Marion
		Frances Marion was discovered by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer, who helped organize MGM.
		Married four times, Marion's third husband was cowboy star Fred Thomson, whose westerns were so unusually well written that it was hinted that Frances was penning them under a pseudonym.
		The last films to carry Marion's name on the credits were "The Clown" (1953) and "The Champ" (1979), both remakes of the 1931 version of "The Champ".
	www.screenwritersutopia.com /modules.php?name=ScribeContent&pa=showpage&pid=211 (153 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood" with the silent film "A ...
		Marion was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as the highest paid screenwriter in the world.
		Marion remained a power in Hollywood right up to the time when she helped to start the Screenwriter's Guild, and MGM retaliated by terminating her contract.
		Marion's story is told through vintage film clips, stills and interviews with surviving family, friends and employees who knew her, as well as interviews with current women directors, film historians, critic Leonard Maltin, and her biographer, Cari Beauchamp.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/new/lydown.html (1063 words)

	Bio for Frances Marion on MSN Movies
		American screenwriter Frances Marion was never certain of her birthdate, but thought that it was 1888 because she was told by her grandmother that the year was full of lucky eights.
		Because she was a favorite of Davies, there were rumors that Marion kept her job at MGM only through the aegis of Marion's "protector" William Randolph Hearst; some historians insist to this day (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary) that Marion was virtually illiterate and that her greatest scripts were ghosted by others.
		Married four times, Marion's third husband was cowboy star Fred Thomson, whose westerns were so unusually well written that it was hinted that Frances was penning them under a pseudonym (Thomson's sudden death in 1928 was a devastating loss for Marion, one that required several years' emotional recovery).
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=279324 (377 words)

	Cari Beauchamp
		Beauchamp says, "Frances was usually brought in after other people had been hired and (the studio) had sort of given up, and then she started anew.
		Frances, in both cases, encouraged and was successful in organizing an all-woman screening with the secretaries.
		Marion was one of several women who wielded this kind of influence with studios.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/marion.htm (931 words)

	Frances Dee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born Frances Marion Dee in Los Angeles, California, where her Army officer father was stationed, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois, where she attended Shakespeare Grammar School and Hyde Park High School, where she went by the nickname of Frankie Dee.
		During their lifetime together, Frances Dee McCrea and her husband Joel McCrea lived, raised their children, and rode their horses on their ranch in what was then an unincorporated area of eastern Ventura County, California.
		Frances Dee McCrea died in Norwalk, Connecticut due to complications from a stroke at the age of 94.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frances_Dee (381 words)

	Amazon.ca: Frances Marion: Without Lying Down: Video: Uma Thurman,Kathy Bates,Mary Lea Bandy,Cari Beauchamp,Kevin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But the film's proper focus is Marion's deep friendship and fruitful collaboration with screen icon Mary Pickford as her writer of choice--a lofty privilege that catapulted them both to great wealth and, for Marion, a celebrated directorial career.
		Now, Frances Marion's fascinating life and times come alive in this insightful documentary narrated by acclaimed actresses Uma Thurman and Oscar-winner Kathy Bates, who gives voice to the screen writer's own words taken from her letters, diaries and memoirs.
		Frances Marion for a time was Mary Pickford's favourite screenwriter, writing some of her best films.
	www.amazon.ca /Frances-Marion-Without-Lying-Down/dp/B00005RYQT (1705 words)

	Revolutionary War FAQs
		General Francis Marion, a revolutionary spy, was nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" because the British Col. Tarleton called him "this damned old fox".
		Marion County was created by an act of the Alabama Territorial General Assembly on 1818 Feb. 13.
		The county was named for General Frances Marion of South Carolina.
	members.aol.com /TeacherNet/RevFAQ.html (2477 words)

	Marion
		Frances Marion started her career writing at nineteen working as a reporter.
		Marion had to transition from silent films to talkies, and had no trouble doing so.
		Through all of Marion’s success, she kept a level head and did not try to romanticize Hollywood in any way.
	members.aol.com /ladystormmercury/marion.html (347 words)

	Biography for Frances Marion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Her influence resurrected the career of Marie Dressler and resulted in its greatest glory, and her scripts for Marion Davies are among the most memorable of that actress's oeuvre.
		She was at one time married to Western star 'Fred Thomson' and subsequently to director George W. Hill.
		Marion died in 1973, one of the most respected names in Hollywood history.
	us.imdb.com /Bio?Marion,+Frances (378 words)

	Frances Marion
		Generally ranked with the leading screenwriters of all time, Frances Marion had more than 130 screen credits during her 25-year career, spanning the years 1915 to 1940, from the rise of the star-laden silent features to the height of the Golden Age of talkies.
		Marion arrived in Los Angeles from San Francisco in 1913 at age 23, twice married and divorced, talented and ambitious, having already worked as a journalist, artist's and photographer's model, commercial artist/illustrator, and writer of published stories and verse.
		Friendship was one of Marion's special talents, so when Lois Weber died penniless and forgotten after a significant career, it was Marion who, at the peak of her own fame and fortune, arranged and paid for Weber's funeral.
	www.filmreference.com /Writers-and-Production-Artists-Lo-Me/Marion-Frances.html (1360 words)

	Report - page 1
		We began with the 1896-1900 index as Marion's birth dates were calculated from her marriage and death information.
		No record of birth for a Marion Frances was found, nor one for Cyrus or Howard.
		It was difficult to know if the entries I found were that of "our" Marion as we were still unsure of her birth date and therefore unsure of the age we were seeking.
	world.std.com /~gubin/Marion/index_files/page0004.htm (676 words)

	Classic Images: Film Book Reviews, June 1997
		When Frances Marion published her lackluster and remarkably uninformative autobiography, "Off With Their Heads!," back in 1972, it looked as if that would be the last, unsatisfactory word on perhaps the best known, if not the greatest screenwriter from the "golden age" of Hollywood.
		She discusses the more than 200 films that Marion wrote between 1916 and 1946, and, just as important, she finds space for the pioneering women who worked alongside Marion, including, of course, Mary Pickford, as well as Lillian Gish, Marie Dressler, Marion Davies, and many others.
		Frances Marion is lucky to have such a devout, faithful, and caring biographer as Cari Beauchamp.
	www.classicimages.com /1997/june/bookreview697.html (1949 words)

	Amazon.com: Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood: Books: Cari Beauchamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Marion Benson Owens first publicly documented her creative talents at San Francisco's Hamilton Grammar School "when I was caught drawing cartoons of my teacher on the flboard and was expelled from all public schools." Read the first page
		Frances was not only an intelligent and witty screenwriter but a woman with principles and a giving heart.
		Marion by modern cinephiles as a pioneer in film-making is a true travesty.
	www.amazon.com /Without-Lying-Down-Powerful-Hollywood/dp/0520214927 (1754 words)

	Art Galleries / Artist Series
		The mission of the art galleries program is to present exhibitions that support and enhance the academic goals of the visual arts program at Francis Marion University, providing a non-profit institutional setting in the service of society for educational purposes.
		Under the supervision of the Fine Arts Department faculty, the galleries curator is committed to researching, exhibiting and interpreting for the purpose of study, objects, activities, and documents focused on the visual arts.
		The late John W. Baker, for whom the Music/Art wing of the Hyman Fine Arts Center is named, was the founding Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Francis Marion College, later serving as Dean of Students as well as Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts.
	alpha1.fmarion.edu /~finearts/gallery.htm (2461 words)

	Frances Marion Biography, Filmography,
		Born November 18, 1887 - American screenwriter Frances Marion was never certain of her birthdate, but thought that it was 1888 because she was told by her grandmother that the year was full of lucky eights.
		One thing Marion did know for certain: she was the descendant of Revolutionary Wa...
		Discuss Frances Marion with Starpulse members in the forums...
	www.starpulse.com /Actresses/Marion,_Frances (120 words)

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