Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

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&ndnotes SOURCES AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Frances Marion wrote an earlier, longer, and much more personal manuscript for the book that became Off with Their Heads entitled Hollywood and with the family's permission, I have quoted from that manuscript . In the early fifties, she drafted a version that was primarily an homage to Fred Thomson and when I have quoted from that the citation is "Notes on Hollywood." Private papers: Quotes taken from the full text of the interview Frances Marion gave to Booton Herndon in early 1973 are noted as FM to Booton Herndon; Sidney Franklin's unpublished autobiography courtesy of Kevin Brownlow;Gene Gauntier's unpublished memoirs at MOMA; Thomsonfamily letters, unless otherwise noted, are courtesy of Carson and Mary Thomson; Anita Loos diaries courtesy of MaryAnita Loos von Saltza. Libraries, archives, and historical societies: Universityof Southern California, Frances Marion personal collection; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library;The Writers Guild of LosAngeles; Sutro Libraryin San Francisco; San Francisco Public Library,Special Collections; San Mateo Historical Society; Napa Historical Society; The Museumof San Francisco; Universityof California at Los Angeles; Bancroft Library at University of California at Berkeley; California State University at San LuisObispo; San Francisco Hall of Records; Alameda County Records; City of Pasadena Hall of Records, Los Angeles County Records at Norwalk, Los Angeles Superior Court Records; Museum at San Quentin, San Raphael, California; San Simeon; the Burlingame Historical Society; Museum of Modern Art; Libraryof Congress; National Archives, Washington D.C.; Butler Library at Columbia University,Oral History Project, New York; Hudson Valley Historical Society; Universityof Florida at Gainesville; Franklin D. Roosevelt Libraryat Hyde Park; Reno Hall of Records. ABBREVIATIONS AMPAS Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AFI American Film Institute BNF Bulgarska Nacionalna Filmoteka, Sophia CPU Cesky Filmovy Ustav, Prague CMAM Cinemateca Museude Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro CNC Centre National de la Cinematographic, Paris CR Cinematheque Royale, Brussels EH Exhibitors' Herald EHMPW Exhibitors' Herald Moving Picture World FM Frances Marion GEH George Eastman House, Rochester, New York GOS Gosfilmofond, Moscow LC Libraryof Congress MOMA Museumof Modern Art 387 ENDNOTES MFC Motion Picture Classic MPH Motion Picture Herald MPM Motion Picture Magazine MPN Motion Picture News MPPDA Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPW MovingPicture World NAC National Archive of Canada, Ottawa NF Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam NFA National Film Archive, London SDK Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin USC University of Southern California CHAPTER 1 1. "when I was" Letter from FM to Ray Roberts, January 1, 1972; "hypocrisies" and "fastidious" Frances Marion, Hollywood, pp. 1-2. 2. U.S. Census documents from 1900 and 1910, San Francisco phone books, Sutro Library, San Francisco; notes on family photographs. Note: Minnie Benson Owens wasborn in San Francisco in November 1867. 3. 1900 census; San Francisco Call, October 11, 1900, and November 6, 1901; "Medicinal value" One Hundred Years of Aetna Springs, self'published undated document in the files of the Napa Historical Society. 4. Joe Blackstock to CB; While their firm profited, advertising quicklybecame a secondary occupation to all three partners with Varney focusing on hisbicycle company and Green wasa theater impresario . Owens, Vamey and Green eventuallywasmerged into what became the nucleus of Foster and Kleiser. 1900 census; Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools to the Board ofSupervisors of San Francisco in 1900; San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library; Son Francisco Call, October 11, 1900; 1910 census gives Len's age at the time of their marriage as forty-four with Isabel at twenty-six. Note: In addition to a flamboyant career as a defense lawyer, EdgarPreston was the general counsel for the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company. 5. "excitement" San Francisco Call, October 11, 1900; Our Society Blue Book 1902 San Francisco History Center, San Francisco PublicLibrary. 6. Jim Tully, "Frances Marion," Vanity Fair, January 1927; Mary B. Mullet, "A Girl Who Has Won Fame and Fortune Writing Scenarios," The AmericanMagazine, undated (1927), in the files of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). 7. Letter from FM to Ray Roberts, January 1, 1972. 8. Booklet on St. Margaret's faculty, terms, and course of studyin the San Mateo Historical society, 1895; "I belong to no" Bodeen, More from Hollywood, p. 100. 9. The Marguerite, magazine published semiannually by the pupils of St. Margaret's May 1903, San Mateo Historical Society; 1910 census; San Francisco Call, November 6, 1901. 10. Elizabeth Peltret, "Frances Marion, Soldieress of Fortune," Photoplay, November, 1917; J.J. Cohn toCB...