WITHOUT LYING DOWN (2000) B/W & C 60m

From Now Playing: A Viewer's Guide to Turner Classic Movies: "Our festival [saluting women film pioneers] includes the world premiere of an original TCM documentary, Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Early Hollywood (2000), a study of trailblazing filmmaker Frances Marion ... Our look at Marion's (1887-1973) career includes the only existing film of the three she directed --- The Love Light (1921), starring Mary Pickford. Marion, who wrote more than 200 films and for two decades was the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood, became the first woman to win an Academy Award for writing, with her screenplay for The Big House (1930). She collected her second Oscar for her original story of The Champ (1931), and provided Greta Garbo with her first spoken words onscreen in Anna Christie (1930)."

For more about early women filmmakers, also watch REEL MODELS: THE FIRST WOMEN OF FILM.