Marion Brooks

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Marion Brooks
BornJanuary 21, 1896
Chicago, Illinois, USA
DiedJuly 11, 1987(1987-07-11) (aged 91)
California, USA
OccupationScreenwriter, actress
Spouse(s)Robert McKinney

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]

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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

As actress

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References

  1. 1 2 "Screen Couple Engaged, Wed at Lunch". The Los Angeles Times. 3 May 1923. Retrieved 2019-12-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "War Effects Fan Mail". The San Francisco Examiner. 2 Mar 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Florence Turner in 'Her Diary'". The Fresno Morning Republican. 10 Jul 1912. Retrieved 2019-12-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)