num_pages: 448
description: An intimate portrait of the close friendship and powerful creative partnership between two of Hollywoods earliest female superstars: Frances Marion and Mary Pickford. An enchanting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviators Wife.Hollywood 1914. Frances Marion a young writer desperate for a break meets Americas Sweetheart Mary Pickford already making a name for herself both on and off the screen with her golden curls and lively spirit. Together these two women will take the movie business by storm.Mary Pickford becomes known as the Queen of the Moviesthe first actor to have her name on a movie marquee and the first to become a truly international celebrity. Mary and her husband Douglas Fairbanks were Americas first Royal Couple living in a home more famous that Buckingham Palace. Mary won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Talkie and was the first to put her hand and footprints in Graumans theater sidewalk. Her annual salary in 1919 was $625000at a time when womens salaries peaked at $10 a week. Frances Marion is widely considered one of the most important female screenwriters of the 20th century and was the first writer to win multiple Academy Awards. The close personal friendship between the two stars was closely linked to their professional collaboration and success.This is a novel about power: the power of women during the exhilarating early years of Hollywood and the power of forgiveness. Its also about the imbalance of power then and now and the sacrifices and compromises women must make in order to succeed. And at its heart its a novel about the power of female friendship.
language: English
title: The Girls in the Picture
publisher: Delacorte Press