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Second in Screenland'S series personalizing notable feminine careers of [he cinema: Frances Marion, Hollywood's highest paid woman scenario writer
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you. Her brain is as clear and hard-thinking as a banker's. It is that combination of her personality and her brain that has always made her pictures Box-Office Plus. Producers relax when she is doing the scripts for their million dollar properties.
She looks like the kind of woman who has nothing more important to think of than an appointment at the couturiere's, yet you can bet next week's salary right on the line that her head is whizzing with the details of turning the last Broadway hit or best selling novel into an Academy Award winner. The coveted gold Oscars are no novelty to her. You find them all over her home nonchalantly serving as door stops. She takes her work seriously and her success lightly. Yesterday it was "Humoresque" and "Anna Christie" and "Min and Bill" and "Emma" and "The Champ" that were gathering laurels for her. Today she is preparing the scenario for
M-G-M's production of Myron Brinig's best seller, "May Flavin."
She never seems to be working, yet she works harder than anyone I've ever known. When I first met her I thought she must do it with mirrors. Today I knowdifferently. Much against my will she's practically convinced me that you have to work to get anywhere. For as if Hollywood doesn't keep her busy enough she turns out a novel practically every year. Her latest book, "Portrait of a Certain Woman," will be out in February and her text book was published a few months ago.
Probably no text book ever written has had so many advance orders as her "Flow To Write And Sell Film Stories." Already in its third printing the publishers^ are hard put to keep up with the demand, and universities and writing courses all over the country are using it. The book is the accumulation of years of experience and it was written for serious students of screen technique. She feels the need for such a text book is stronger than ever now that producers are buying so many original stories. For of course that (Please turn to page 78)
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