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Frances Marion (November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards. Born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, she worked as a journalist and served overseas as a combat correspondent during World War I. On her return home, she moved to Los Angeles and was hired as a writing assistant, an actress and general assistant by "Lois Weber Productions", a film company owned and operated by pioneer female film director Lois Weber.She has a face as an actor, but she preferred a work that she isn't in the camera. She learned how to write a scenario from Weber. Marion wrote a story for a movie for her, but it burned before it was released. As "Frances Marion", she wrote many scripts for actress/filmmaker Mary Pickford, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Poor Little Rich Girl, as well as scripts for numerous other successful films of the 1920s and 1930s.Marion went to New York for her job, and her husband decline to live with her and divorced. She became the first female to win an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1930 for the film The Big House, she received the Academy Award for Best Story for The Champ in 1932, both featuring Wallace Beery, and co-wrote Min and Bill starring her friend Marie Dressler and Beery in 1930. She was credited with writing 300 scripts and over 130 produced films. She directed and occasionally appeared in some of Mary Pickford's early movies. For many years she was under contract to MGM Studios, but, independently wealthy, she left Hollywood in 1946 to devote more time to writing stage plays and novels. Frances Marion published a memoir Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood in 1972. Marion died the following year of a ruptured aneurysm in Los Angeles.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1888-11-18
- event Death Date 1973-05-12
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 2.4
- info Birth Place San Francisco, California, USA
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
2000-08-03
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A Girl of Yesterday
1915-10-07
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The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016-05-16
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A Sister's Burden
1915-05-10
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The Misleading Widow
1919-09-07
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The Eagle's Talons
1923-04-30
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924-02-02
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924-02-02
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The Secret Six
1931-04-18
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Love from a Stranger
1937-04-18
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The Champ
1931-11-21
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Camille
1936-12-26
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The Big House
1930-06-14
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The Big House
1930-06-14
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Stella Maris
1918-01-21
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The Toll of the Sea
1923-01-22
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Sundown
1924-11-30
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The Son of the Sheik
1926-09-05
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The Scarlet Letter
1927-01-08
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Emma
1932-01-02
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Their Own Desire
1929-12-27
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The Winning of Barbara Worth
1926-10-14
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The World and His Wife
1920-07-18
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The Champ
1979-07-07
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Anne of Green Gables
1919-11-23
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The Cinema Murder
1919-12-14
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The Love Light
1921-01-08
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Love
1927-11-29
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The Big House
1930-11-14
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Anna Christie
1930-02-21
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The Wind
1928-09-15
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Good News
1930-08-22
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The Masks of the Devil
1928-11-17
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Let Us Be Gay
1930-07-11
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Let Us Be Gay
1930-07-11
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917-03-05
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Anna Christie
1930-12-22
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Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
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Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
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The Awakening
1928-11-17
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Secrets
1924-03-24
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Potash and Perlmutter
1923-09-10
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The Rogue Song
1930-01-17
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Cytherea
1924-05-04
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A Thief in Paradise
1925-06-18
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
1924-09-28
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Stella Dallas
1925-11-16
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Partners Again
1926-02-15
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Riffraff
1936-01-03
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The Love Light
1921-01-08
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M'Liss
1918-05-05
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The Primitive Lover
1922-04-30
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917-09-22
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The First Year
1926-01-24
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Captain Kidd, Jr.
1919-04-05
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Lightnin'
1925-08-23
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How Could You, Jean?
1918-06-29
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The Web of Desire
1917-03-04
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The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923-02-19
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Paris at Midnight
1926-04-17
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The Tough Guy
1926-02-01
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The Heart of a Hero
1916-11-06
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933-11-10
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Zander the Great
1925-05-01
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The City of Dim Faces
1918-07-15
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Through the Dark
1924-01-06
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Knight Without Armour
1937-07-23
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The Gilded Cage
1916-10-09
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Go and Get It
1920-07-18
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Just Around the Corner
1921-12-11
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The Song of Love
1923-12-24
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The Hidden Scar
1916-10-15
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The Revolt
1916-10-01
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A Woman's Way
1916-08-07
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The Toll of the Sea
1923-01-22
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Johanna Enlists
1918-09-14
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The Rise of Susan
1916-12-18
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Dulcy
1923-08-27
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The Dark Star
1919-08-03
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Within the Law
1923-04-28
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Min and Bill
1930-11-29
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Just Around the Corner
1921-12-11
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Back Pay
1922-01-08
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Humoresque
1920-05-29
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The Lady
1925-02-08
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The Nth Commandment
1923-03-18
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The Nth Commandment
1923-03-18
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Lazybones
1925-11-06
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Hands Across the Border
1926-05-01
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The Red Mill
1927-01-29
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The Red Mill
1927-01-29
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Mr. Wu
1927-03-26
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A Daughter of the Sea
1915-11-22
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Riffraff
1936-01-03
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Tillie Wakes Up
1917-01-29
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A Circus Romance
1916-01-24
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The Social Leper
1917-03-19
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Forget-Me-Not
1917-04-16
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A Square Deal
1917-02-19
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The Restless Sex
1920-11-12
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Thank You
1925-10-05
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Fanchon, the Cricket
1915-05-10
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The Song of Love
1923-12-24
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The Eternal Flame
1922-09-17
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The Voice from the Minaret
1923-01-28
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A Little Princess
1917-11-05
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
1918-03-10
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The Big House
1930-06-14
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Pollyanna
1920-01-18
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Secrets
1933-03-16
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Sonny
1922-05-22
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His Supreme Moment
1925-04-12
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The Dark Angel
1925-09-27
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Rags
1915-08-02
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The Foundling
1916-01-03
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The Big House
1931-05-14
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The Pirate
1948-06-11
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Cynara
1932-12-24
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Molly and Me
1945-05-25
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The French Doll
1923-09-03
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East Is West
1922-10-15
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On Dangerous Ground
1917-01-08
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Love from a Stranger
1937-04-18
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Bringing Up Father
1928-03-18
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Madame Pompadour
1927-08-01
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Dinner at Eight
1989-12-11
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The Amazons
1917-08-17
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The Flapper
1920-05-10
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The Flapper
1920-05-10
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Tarnish
1924-08-01
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Graustark
1925-08-30
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A Girl's Folly
1917-02-26
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The Stolen Paradise
1917-06-18
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He Comes Up Smiling
1918-09-09
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The Temple Of Dusk
1918-10-20
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The Callahans and the Murphys
1927-06-18
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Straight Is the Way
1921-03-06
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Green Hell
1940-01-26
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Green Hell
1940-01-26
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Camille
1915-12-27
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The New York Hat
1912-12-05
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Cytherea
1924-05-04
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Lazybones
1925-11-06
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The Song of Love
1923-12-24
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The Voice from the Minaret
1923-01-28
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Lightnin'
1925-08-23
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The Cinema Murder
1919-12-14
7
The Son of the Sheik
1926-09-05
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Sonny
1922-05-22
7
The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917-03-05
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Partners Again
1926-02-15
7
A Thief in Paradise
1925-06-18
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Within the Law
1923-04-28
7
Secrets
1933-03-16
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Secrets
1924-03-24
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His Supreme Moment
1925-04-12
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The Scarlet Letter
1927-01-08
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Graustark
1925-08-30
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Stella Dallas
1925-11-16
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Pollyanna
1920-01-18
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Zander the Great
1925-05-01
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Knight Without Armour
1937-07-23
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Good News
1930-08-22
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Cynara
1932-12-24
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Ridin' the Wind
1925-08-09
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The Two-Gun Man
1926-06-13
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Jesse James
1927-10-15
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Jesse James
1927-10-15
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Don Mike
1927-01-25
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The Crucial Test
1916-07-03
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Dinner at Eight
1933-12-22
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Sherlock Brown
1922-06-26
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A Woman Alone
1917-01-01
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The French Doll
1923-09-03
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The Sunset Legion
1928-04-21
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The Sunset Legion
1928-04-21
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Esmeralda
1915-09-06
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The Love Piker
1923-07-22
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All Man
1916-12-04
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The Summer Girl
1916-08-14
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Beloved Adventuress
1917-07-16
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Beloved Adventuress
1917-07-16
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Darkest Russia
1917-04-23
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The Crimson Dove
1917-06-04
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The Divorce Game
1917-06-25