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Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from the early teens through the 1940s.Â
Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter - male or female - for almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and remains the only woman to win two Academy Awards for original screenwriting (The Big House and The Champ). Marion's story reveals the importance and the power of female friendships as well as the history of today's #TimesUp movement.  Â
"I felt an almost subversive thrill reading about Frances Marion.... Cari Beauchamp lovingly reveals the women who climbed to the very top of the Hollywood hierarchy in this richly researched excavation of complex lives. It is a revelation." (Lynda Obst, New York Times)
"An astonishing mini-history of the 20th century.... Marion knew everyone from Jack London to Irving Thalberg to William Randolph Hearst." (Jeanine Basinger, Los Angeles Times)
"With clarity and intelligence, the book forces us to reconsider our assumptions about women's history and about the history of the arts." (Hank Sartin, Chicago Tribune)
Read Online Without Lying Down Audible Audio Edition Cari Beauchamp Holly Palance Spoken Realms Books
"This is an invaluable resource for those wanting to learn the true story of how Hollywood grew to be the industry it is today. Frances Marion and her female contemporaries should be known, and yet, the important work they did as "scenarists" aka, screenplay writers, is marginalized in most film education. That's a true shame. This extensively researched book gives amazing insight into so many of these "forgotten" women. All lovers of film should read it."
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Without Lying Down Audible Audio Edition Cari Beauchamp Holly Palance Spoken Realms Books Reviews
- This is an invaluable resource for those wanting to learn the true story of how Hollywood grew to be the industry it is today. Frances Marion and her female contemporaries should be known, and yet, the important work they did as "scenarists" aka, screenplay writers, is marginalized in most film education. That's a true shame. This extensively researched book gives amazing insight into so many of these "forgotten" women. All lovers of film should read it.
- Superbly written Hollywood history of the early days . One sees what it like when something new is being born; anything goes, talent is the only criteria, women get a chance and a make a mark . As a medium matures and gains in status all that is cut back if not stamped out.
Many would find this hidden history shocking and how important women were to early Hollywood. The mind set later and even now is so different from what it was then Must reading for anyone interested in the movies . It often reads like a suspense novel ; the early day were so wide open creatively speaking. Cari Beauchamp makes one feel they are on the dusty, sunlit California streets filming and ,among the orange groves of early Hollywood . - If you're passionate about the early movie industry, this is the excellent book to read. Before Hollywood was Hollywood, it was orange groves and dirt roads, and a fistful of pioneers, many of whom were women. Frances Marion, Anita Loos, Marion Davies, Mary Pickford (not the shy, petite ingenue we see on the screen, but the powerhouse producer/studio executive she was truly). In the early days of the moving picture business, Frances Marion was the highest paid screenwriter in the world, pulling in $20,000 a treatment. Women were the directors, the writers, the producers, the people who got the actors to show up, and got the films to the screens.
Cari Beauchamp is a spot-on researcher, and an accomplished storyteller. Who could ask for more? I can. I'd like a new book about women in film after WWII. How did all of them get booted out of town? Where are the powerhouse filmmaker women now? - I love this book -- it's all about the era when women actually were allowed to write and direct as well as be beautiful in front of the camera. This lady was an Oscar winner and far ahead of her time. She lived in a most interesting era. Love the quote that gave the book it's title. She had said, "I would love to look up to a man, without lying down."
You go, girl -- - I bought it for a class I ended up dropping but I just had to continue reading it. Great read, highly recommend!
- Francis Marion was the movie industry's leading screenwriter for 40 years. Her story is the growth of the movie industry. from the early 1900s until the 1940's. Mary Pickford, for years, would not make a movie, unless it was written by Francis Marion. Here it is, the whole story of the movie industry, Fascinating and interesting.
- Came in great condition
- If you're interested in the history of film, particularly as it relates to women in the industry, I enthusiastically recommend this book. 🎬😊
