Cari Beauchamp

Without Lying Down

Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

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Produktbeschreibung

Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter--male or female--for almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ". Here author Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped film making from 1912 throughout the 1940s. 62 photos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 475
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 148mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780520214927
• ISBN-10: 0520214927
• Artikelnr.: 21087386

Autorenporträt

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.