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goryhorroor · 1 year

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babylon characters + real life influences

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citizenscreen · 5 months

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"I've spent my life searching for a man to look up to without lying down."

Pioneering and consequential. Frances Marion was born on November 18, 1888 #botd

screenwriter, director, journalist, author

Pioneering and consequential. Frances Marion was born on November 18, 1888 #botd

screenwriter, director, journalist, author

#frances marion

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tcmparty · 8 months

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, September 04, 2023. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Tuesday, Sept. 05 — 4:30 p.m. THE SECRET SIX (1931) A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.

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davidhudson · 1 year

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Frances Marion, November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973.

#frances marion #cinema #film #movies

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lairreparablefugadeltiempo · 2 years

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Just Around the Corner (Frances Marion, 1921)

#just around the corner #frances marion #margaret seddon #lewis sargent #sigrid holmquist #1921 #fred thomson #silent cinema #silent movies #silent film #silent

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silentlondon · 6 months

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The First Year (1926): The cure for matrimonial measles

This is an expanded version of an essay I wrote for Sight and Sound in 2020. The First Year (Frank Borzage, 1926) screens this week at MoMA on the opening night of the After Alice, Beyond Lois programme, curated by Kate Saccone and Dave Kehr to commemorate 10 years of the Women Film Pioneers Project. Frank Borzage was one of the greatest Hollywood directors of young love. When we remember his…

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#Carolynne Snowden #Dave Kehr #featured #Frances Marion #Frank Borzage #J. Farrell MacDonald #Kate Saccone #Katherine Perry #Margaret Livingston #Matt Moore #MoMA #romantic comedy #silent film

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oldfilmsflicker · 2 years

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new-to-me #619 - Just Around the Corner (1921)

#2022 in Films #Frances Marion #Just Around the Corner #silent film #52 Films By Women #Directed By Women #Pordenone Silent #GCM41

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higherentity · 8 months

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#frances marion #actress #20s #frances

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circa-obsolete · 2 years

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#photoplay magazine #anita loos #frances marion #female writers in film #1920s #silent cinema #scenaroists #ladies in early film #clara beranger #ouida bergere #Jane Murfin #women in fim #women writers #screenplays by women #1900s

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blocodeespantamentos · 1 year

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#female film pioneers #international women's day #alice guy-blaché #germaine dulac #lois weber #elinor glyn #mabel normand #june mathis #mary pickford #dorothy arzner #marion fairfax #frances marion #listverse #cinema #film

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modernerealisateur · 2 years

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#frances marion #mary pickford

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byneddiedingo · 9 months

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Fred Thomson and Mary Pickford in The Love Light (Frances Marion, 1921)

Cast: Mary Pickford, Evelyn Dumo, Fred Thomson, Eddie Phillips, Albert Prisco, Raymond Bloomer, George Rigas, Jean De Briac. Screenplay: Frances Marion. Cinematography: Henry Cronjager, Charles Rosher. Art direction: Stephen Goosson. Film editing: Stuart Heisler.

Watching Mary Pickford in The Love Light is exhausting. She is continuously on, rough-and-tumbling with her brothers, gamely sending them off to war, grieving their deaths, rescuing a sailor from drowning, hiding him from the villagers, flirting with him, discovering to her horror that he's a spy and that he may have made her the inadvertent cause of her brother's death, sending him off to the mercy of the villagers and his death. And just when it seems like she can't suffer (or act) any more, she has his baby (they were secretly married), goes mad and sees it adopted by another woman, gets it back, loses it again in a fiendish plot by the other woman, goes mad again, regains her sanity when her childhood boyfriend comes home from the war blinded, teaches him how to cope with his blindness, and eventually rescues her child from the clutches of the other woman by boarding the storm-tossed vessel in which the woman had tried to abduct the baby. It's one of those soaped-up melodramas we think of as typical of silent films, but it works, mostly because Pickford is amazing, but also because Frances Marion was such a skilled director and writer. Marion later became the first woman to win an Oscar for something other than acting, with her award for writing The Big House (George W. Hill, 1930), though by that time she had given up directing. (As a writer, the IMDb credits her with 188 titles, though some of those are remakes of her earlier films.) Still, it's primarily a showcase for Pickford's special brand of hard, determined acting. She resembles in her determination such later stars as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, though they lacked Pickford's façade of softness (a softness masking steel). Davis would, of course, somewhat cruelly parody Pickford later in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962). One great plus to The Love Light is the fine cinematography of Charles Rosher and Henry Cronjager.

#The Love Light #Frances Marion #Fred Thomson #Mary Pickford

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citizenscreen · 1 year

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