Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000)

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

2000

Documentary TV Movie

Synopsis

From 1915-1939, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful talents in the movie industry. In one of the most liberating eras for women in film, she wrote more than 200 movies and was the world's highest paid screenwriter - man or woman. Kathy Bates gives voice to Marion's words from her letters, diaries, and memoirs. Includes commentary by silent film historian Kevin Brownlow, critic Leonard Maltin, and Marion's celebrated biographer Cari Beauchamp. Current women filmmakers reflect on the legacy left to them by Marion and the pioneering women of early Hollywood.

Credits

Director

Bridget Terry

Cast

Callie Khouri as Self

Fay Kanin as Self

Frances Marion as Self (archive footage)

Jackie Cooper as Self

Kathy Bates as Frances Marion (voice)

Leonard Maltin as Self

Martha Coolidge as Self

Uma Thurman as Self - Narrator (voice)