Marion accepted, and began working on scenarios for films like Fanchon the Cricket, Little Pal, and Rags. Soon after, close friend Mary Pickford offered Marion a job at Famous Players-Lasky. Marion decided not to take Weber up on the offer. When Lois Weber went to work for Universal, she offered to bring Marion with her. She could have been an actor, but preferred work behind the camera. In the summer of 1914 she 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. After moving to Los Angeles, Marion worked as a poster artist for the Morosco Theater as well as an advertising firm doing commercial layouts. Later she worked for Western Pacific Railroads as a commercial artist, then as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. While in San Francisco, Marion worked as a photographer's assistant to Arnold Genthe and experimented with photographic layouts and color film. Marion attended this school from 1904 until the school was destroyed by the fire that followed in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. She then transferred to a school in San Mateo and then to the Mark Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco when she was 16 years old. She dropped out of school at age 12, after having been caught drawing a cartoon strip of her teacher. Her parents divorced when she was 10, and she lived with her mother. She had an older sister, Maude, and a younger brother, Len. Marion was born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, to Len D. She wrote numerous silent film scenarios for actress Mary Pickford, before transitioning to writing sound films. Marion began her film career working for filmmaker Lois Weber.
She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards. During the course of her career, she wrote over 325 scripts. Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens, Novem – May 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of the most renowned female screenwriters of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.
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