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Screenwriter Frances Marion (1888-1973) is the central subject of this excellent book, but mega-star Mary Pickford, journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, bit-player-turned-gossip-columnist Hedda Hopper, and other high-powered female friends get nearly equal time. The author's skillful mix of biography with Hollywood history results in a densely textured portrait of an industry in formation and the intelligent, ambitious women who seized the opportunities it offered them for creative expression and financial independence. The text also instills new appreciation for the artistry of silent movies. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Film journalist Beauchamp's book is aptly subtitled, for this is not only about the pioneering screenwriter Frances Marion, whose credits range from silent classics to Garbo's first "talkie" to sophisticated comedy. This is also the story of the women with whom Marion worked, who creatively and symbiotically sustained one another. Chronicled here are her intimate working relationships with Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Irving Thalberg; her qualified disdain of Louis B. Mayer and Joseph P. Kennedy; and her marriages, especially to cowboy film star Fred Thomson. Occupying the margins?but rarely marginalized?Marion cultivated power that often translated into casting decisions and salary negotiations on her own terms. She made the transition from silents to sound motion pictures and likewise survived the industry's swing from early respect for the director's vision to a later reverence for bottomline returns. To dub Beauchamp's work "revisionist" is inadequate: this is a welcomed rediscovery. For all film collections and larger public libraries.?Jayne Kate Plymale-Jackson, Univ. of Georgia Lib., Athens
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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  • Paperback: 475 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (April 23, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520214927
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520214927
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Overview of Women in the Silent Era, February 17, 2000
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I bought this book on a whim. I was looking for books on some of the great silent stars..Marion Davis, Mary Pickford, Colleen Moore, Olive Thomas, etc. I find it incredibly hard to find books about the Golden Age of Hollywood. After reading this work, I was taken back to a time when flickers were just coming in to vogue and when women could thrive in a burgeoning industry! The author - Cari Beauchamp did an excellent job of capturing the feel of the Golden age of Hollywood. I thought that her research was extensive and considering the limited amount of information available on women in this era, very complete. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in recapturing the essence of the Golden Age of Hollywood in their very modern living rooms of today.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating Look At Early Hollywood, February 16, 2001
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Cari Beauchamp has written a fascinating biography of early Hollywood through the life of Frances Marion, one of its most powerful and highly paid screenwriters, Without Lying Down, Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. The working life of Frances Marion has the advantage of coinciding with the birth of movies as Marion began working on scripts for silent movies in the teens and continued into the sound era and the advent of World War II. This biography also has the joy of highlighting many of the other unique women of Hollywood as Frances Marion traveled in a powerful Hollywood clique. It is a wonderful look at Hollywood between the wars from the vantage point of Frances Marion. Occasionally, it would have been helpful if the author could have expanded the view a little to give a larger context outside of Frances Marion's own sphere of influence and given a broader perspective of the film industry. But what is seen in both entertaining and informative. There was for me real sadness at the end of this book as all these great women pass away but, now at least, one of them is captured lovingly and brilliantly in this fine biography.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best movie-based biography in ages!!, September 15, 1998
This review is from: Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (Hardcover)
I loved this book! The author recognizes the greatness of her subject and rises to the occasion, writing in a highly engaging style. I was most impressed with Marion's deep friendships with her female co-horts through the years from Mary Pickford to newspaper columnist Jill Jackson (still active, by the way). Thoroughly entertaining, interesting, and moving at times. Anybody who believes there is no such thing as friendship in Hollywood has obviously never read this book. I only wish Mary Pickford had as sympathetic a personal biographer as the author is here. She, like, Frances Marion, was one of the greats.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A Deeply Disappointing Biography
I was thrilled to learn that there would at last be a biography of Frances Marion. But as I labor my way through this book, forcing myself through chapter after chapter of vapid... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mark Thrice

5.0 out of 5 stars Another good book about the early days.
She was a very gifted lady in a lot of fields. What she wrote, the people she knew. I also recommend this for any one interested in those early days & the part women played in... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Barbara M. Irwin

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Inspriration
This is a must have for any aspiring artist in this industry. Male or Female. It truly does her story justice. Read more
Published on September 13, 2005 by Janelle M. Ryan

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and Informative
With great appreciation, Without Lying Down tells the story of how women influenced the movie industry in its infancy. Read more
Published on April 26, 2005 by giotto

5.0 out of 5 stars A long gone girlfriend
After reading Ms. Beauchamp's biography of Frances Marion, I felt that I knew Frances...and felt a bit sad that we would no longer "hang out" within these... Read more
Published on September 18, 2001 by julip510

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Unlike other reviewers, I felt I knew Frances very well after finishing this book. Her generosity, her sense of artistry, and her passion (and sometimes hatred) for her... Read more
Published on February 5, 2001 by zachary baker

5.0 out of 5 stars You did a very good job of documenting a very complex woman
I knew Frances well when she lived in Woodbridge,CT, to be near her son Fred who was teaching at Yale...She was a remarkable women and I still treasure her friendship... Read more
Published on June 10, 1999 by onaellen@aol.com

2.0 out of 5 stars great info, drippy book
full of interesting facts about early hollywood and women's contributions to movies, as actresses, writers and much else. Read more
Published on March 9, 1999 by Alonzo

3.0 out of 5 stars Women in Early Hollywood
I was really looking forward to this bio about writer Frances Marion, but I couldn't help but be disappointed. Read more
Published on February 7, 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars The Who's Who of Early Hollywood!
This was a great read which had me running off to the local have-it-all video store in search of early silent films and talkies... Read more
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