Without Lying Down

documentary

nice doc on Frances Marion, Hollywood's premier screenwriter from the mid teens to the mid thirties. At the time, in the beginning of the film industry, women were half the work force and she was the most successful. Later as bureaucracy set in women were excluded and mostly still are.

Fun footage of her and her best friend, and sponsor, Mary Pickford. Title comes from her diary entry that all she wanted was to be able to look up to a man without lying down.

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