| farah ashraf |
American journalist, author, and screenwriter, born on November 18, 1888. She worked as a journalist and moved abroad to be a field reporter during World War I. Then she returned home and moved to Los Angeles, and worked as an assistant writer for Lois Weber Productions. Under the name Frances Marion, she has written several films for actress/producer Mary Pickford, including: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Poor Little Rich Girl. Her name is recorded as the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1930 for The Big House, and she won the Best Story Award for The Champ. She also directed some of Mary Pickford's first films, and occasionally appeared in scenes. For many years, she was under contract with the Golden-Mayer Metro Company, but she left for Hollywood with enough money in 1946, to devote more time to writing plays and novels. She published her autobiography, Off With Their Heads: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood, in 1972. She died on May 12, 1973, in San Francisco, California of an aneurysm herniation.
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