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Marion Brooks
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Marion Brooks (1896–1987) 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]
Key Information
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]As screenwriter
[edit]- The Trail of the Law (1924)
- Do and Dare (1922)
- The Man Who Paid (1922)
- Ashes (1913)
- Old Mammy's Charge (1913)
- The Judge's Vindication (1913)
- A Jolly Good Fellow (1913)
- The Fires of Conscience (1912)
- The Winner and the Spoils (1912)
- The Passer-By (1912)
- The Heir Apparent (1912)
- Freezing Auntie (1912)
- Her Diary (1912)[3]
As actress
[edit]- Martin Chuzzlewit (1912)
- Freezing Auntie (1912)
- Uncle Hiram's List (1911)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Screen Couple Engaged, Wed at Lunch". The Los Angeles Times. 3 May 1923. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
- ^ "War Effects Fan Mail". The San Francisco Examiner. 2 Mar 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
- ^ "Florence Turner in 'Her Diary'". The Fresno Morning Republican. 10 Jul 1912. Retrieved 2019-12-28.