Marion Brooks
Marion Brooks | |
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Born | January 21, 1896 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Died | July 11, 1987 California, USA | (aged 91)
Occupation | Screenwriter, actress |
Spouse(s) | Robert McKinney |
Marion Brooks was an American actress, entertainment journalist, and screenwriter active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was a cousin of film producer Adolph Zukor's wife.[1]
Biography[]
Marion was born in Illinois to Nathaniel Brooks and Catherine Adler. She began working as an actress in Hollywood in the early 1910s, and went on to forge a career as a screenwriter. She met and married actor Robert McKinney (who went by the name Russell Richie professionally) on a film set in 1923.[1] From the late 1920s and into the 1940s, she was head of Paramount's fan-mail department.[2] She also worked as an entertainment journalist; he writing appeared in film magazines like Screenland.
Selected filmography[]
As screenwriter[]
- The Trail of the Law (1924)
- (1922)
- The Man Who Paid (1922)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- (1913)
- The Fires of Conscience (1912)
- (1912)
- (1912)
- (1912)
- (1912)
- (1912)[3]
As actress[]
- Martin Chuzzlewit (1912)
- (1912)
- (1911)
References[]
- ^ a b "Screen Couple Engaged, Wed at Lunch". The Los Angeles Times. 3 May 1923. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "War Effects Fan Mail". The San Francisco Examiner. 2 Mar 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Florence Turner in 'Her Diary'". The Fresno Morning Republican. 10 Jul 1912. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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Categories:
- American women screenwriters
- 1896 births
- 1987 deaths
- Actresses from Chicago
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters