This Forgotten Female Screenwriter Helped Give Hollywood Its Voice

Pickford. Harlow. Valentino. Garbo. A single script by early Hollywood’s highest-paid screenwriter could make or break any of their careers—and for over 20 years, that screenwriter was a woman, Frances Marion. Though women face many barriers as screenwriters today—they wrote only 11% of 2014’s top 250 films—Marion was one of Hollywood’s most influential writers between 1915 and the late 1930s. She helped define Hollywood’s Golden Age, and the language of film itself. Read More…