Without Lying Down
Subtitle: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 23, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780520214927
Subjects: Women; 20th century; California; Women in the motion picture in; Los Angeles; Biography / Autobiography; American English; USA; Women in the motion picture industry; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film & Video - Screenwriting; Marion, Frances; Performing Arts / General; Literary; Biography; United States; 1888-1973; Biography: film, television & music; Biography: general; Film & television screenplays; Films, cinema; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Social history; Women's studies; Women screenwriters; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Marion, Frances,; Friends and associates; History
First sentence: Marion Benson Owens first publicly documented her creative talents at San Francisco's Hamilton Grammar School "when I was caught drawing cartoons of my teacher on the blackboard and was expelled from all public schools."