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Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens; November 18, 1888 [1] – May 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of ...
Francis Marion was born in Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina around 1732. His father Gabriel Marion was a Huguenot who emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies from France at some point prior to 1700 due to the Edict of Fontainebleau and became a slaveowning planter. [3]
Valentino was paid $100,000. The director was paid $75,000 and Frances Marion $25,000. [10] The novel was adapted for the screen by Frances Marion and Fred de Gresac. [2] The film was shot on location in California and in the Yuma Desert in Arizona. [11]
In-house, Frances Marion, who would win two writing Oscars in the 1930s, created the stories for seven of the FBO pictures starring her husband, Fred Thomson—for these brawny cowboy tales, such as Ridin' the Wind (1925) and The Tough Guy (1926), she used the pseudonym Frank M. Clifton (the "patronymic" was Thomson's middle name). [161]
The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1917 American comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur.Adapted by Frances Marion from the 1913 play by Eleanor Gates. [1] The Broadway play actually starred future screen actress Viola Dana. [2]
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Nov. 18—CHARLESTON, S.C. — The UNC Pembroke volleyball team registered 11 aces and hit .236 from the net on the way to a 3-1 (18-25, 25-7, 25-18, 25-20) victory over Francis Marion in the ...
President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force ...