019 - Too Pretty for Film (feat. Cassie Ballschmidt)

We're sharing history with a special guest. Chicago filmmaker, Cassie Ballschmidt takes the reigns to school us on American screenwriter and director, Frances Marion, just as Frances Marion schooled the whole dang film industry.

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Frances Marion
WFP MAR10-1

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Sources for this story: Time, Columbia University’s Women Film Pioneers Project, The Atlantic, and others (see below for formal citations)

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Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

Citations:

This Forgotten Female Screenwriter Helped Give Hollywood Its Voice
BY ERIN BLAKEMORE 
https://time.com/4186886/frances-marion/

“Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood”
Francis Marion

*“How to Write and Sell Film Stories”
Mariposa Gazette in 1914.*

The Women Who Write the Movies (1994)”
Marsha McCreadie 

“Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History”
Vicki Callahan

“Shaping the Craft of Screenwriting: Women Screen Writers in Silent Era Hollywood”
Donna Casella https://wfpp.columbia.edu/essay/shaping-the-craft-of-screenwriting-women-screen-writers-in-silent-era-hollywood/

“Decoration, Discrimination and “the Mysteries of Cinema”: Women and Film Exhibition in Sweden from the Introduction of Film to the Mid-1920s”
Ingrid Stigsdotter
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/essay/

*“How Twelve Famous Women Scenario Writers Succeeded,” 
Photoplay*

*“Francis Marion interview in 1920 Motion Picture Magazine”
Doris Delvigne*

“When Hollywood’s Power Players Were Women”
NAOMI MCDOUGALL JONES
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/02/naomi-mcdougall-jones-wrong-kind-of-women-excerpt/606277/

“Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood”
by Karen Ward Maher 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25097391?seq=1

“Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood” 
Cari Beauchamp

“Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood”
Lizzie Francke

“Virgins, Vamps and Flappers: The American Silent Movie Heroine”
Sumiko Higashi

“Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema”
Jane M. Gaines 

Hollywood’s Modern Women: Screenwriting, Work Culture, and Feminism, 1910-1940.”
Wendy Holliday; Susan Ware
https://www.worldcat.org/title/hollywoods-modern-women-screenwriting-work-culture-and-feminism-1910-1940/oclc/873966777

“Blueprints for Feature Films: Hollywood’s Continuity Scripts”
Janet Staiger

“The American Film Industry”
edited by Tino Balio

“Dividing Labor for Production Control: Thomas Ince and the Rise of the Studio System,”  
Janet Staiger

“Mothering, Feminism and Representation: The Maternal in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film 1910-1940” 
E. Ann Kaplan 

“How to Write and Sell Film Stories” 
Francis Marion

*Francis Marion interview with Elizabeth Peltret of Photoplay in 1917*

“Frances Marion: Part II, She Wrote the Scripts of Some of the Milestone Movies,” Films in Review XX, no. 3 (March 1969)”
De Witt Bodeen

“The Women Who Write the Movies”
Marsha McCreadie

“Screenwriting for the Early Silent Film: Forgotten Pioneers, 1897-1911.” Film History 9, no.3 (September 1997)”
Edward Azlant,

*As quoted by other source. Could not first hand