The Girls in the Picture

Posted on 02 February 2017 by Melanie Benjamin

An intimate portrait of the close friendship and powerful creative partnership between two of Hollywood s earliest female superstars Frances Marion and Mary Pickford An enchanting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator s Wife.Hollywood, 1914 Frances Marion, a young writer desperate for a break, meets America s Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, already making a name for herself both on and off the screen with her golden curls and lively spirit Together, these two women will take the movie business by storm.Mary Pickford becomes known as the Queen of the Movies the first actor to have her name on a movie marquee, and the first to become a truly international celebrity Mary and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, were America s first Royal Couple, living in a home famous that Buckingham Palace Mary won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Talkie and was the first to put her hand and footprints in Grauman s theater sidewalk Her annual salary in 1919 was 625,000 at a time when women s salaries peaked at 10 a week Frances Marion is widely considered one of the most important female screenwriters of the 20th century, and was the first writer to win multiple Academy Awards The close personal friendship between the two stars was closely linked to their professional collaboration and success.This is a novel about power the power of women during the exhilarating early years of Hollywood, and the power of forgiveness It s also about the imbalance of power, then and now, and the sacrifices and compromises women must make in order to succeed And at its heart, it s a novel about the power of female friendship. Read The Girls in the Picture Author Melanie Benjamin – kino-fada.fr 5 epic, huggable, flickering stars to The Girls in the Picture Before reading this book, what I knew about Mary Pickford, America s Sweetheart, was vague I knew even less about her best friend and prolific screenwriter, Frances Marion As I read this, I kept thinking this book is epic This book was engrossing, unputdownable, thorough, perfectly written I can t imagine twofully developed and well crafted characters than Mary and Frances, and it s a bonus that they were based 5 epic, huggable, flickering stars to The Girls in the Picture Before reading this book, what I knew about Mary Pickford, America s Sweetheart, was vague I knew even less about her best friend and prolific screenwriter, Frances Marion As I read this, I kept thinking this book is epic This book was engrossing, unputdownable, thorough, perfectly written I can t imagine twofully developed and well crafted characters than Mary and Frances, and it s a bonus that they were based on real life people and heaps of research carried out by the author Just as I knew little of Pickford and Marion, I knew even less about these early days of Hollywood The silent flickers, Charlie Chaplin, the first talkies, and the founding of major film studios I love learning new things while I read, which is why historical fiction continues to be a favorite genre of mine These things were just the cherry ...The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin is a 2018 Delacorte Press publication I love tales from old Hollywood the silent pictures, the scandals, the innovations and vision that are felt throughout the industry to this day This story zeroes in on the tumultuous friendship between movie star Mary Pickford and screenwriter, Frances Marion I loved the way Benjamin gives Frances such real and believable voice as she regales us with the beginning days of flickers and the way her friendship The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin is a 2018 Delacorte Press publication I love tales from old Hollywood the silent pictures, the scandals, the innovations and vision that are felt throughout the industry to this day This story zeroes in on the tumultuous friendship between movie star Mary Pickford and screenwriter, Frances Marion I loved the way Benjamin gives Frances such real and believable voice as she regales us with the beginning days of flickers and the way her friendship with Pickf...This is a novel I will be recommending to everyone Historical fiction, The Girls in the Picture is a book for everyone who has an interest in the evolution of film and of women trying to be taken seriously in the workplace.Frances doesn t want to be an actress, but she wants to be a part of the movies, and she finds her niche as a scenarist during the era of silent films, when the flickers were considered a low form of entertainment and certainly not an art form She becomes great friends w This is a novel I will be recommending to everyone Historical fiction, The Girls in the Picture is a book for everyone who has an interest in the evolution of film and of women trying to be taken seriously in the workplace.Frances doesn t want to be an actress, but she wants to be a part of the movies, and she finds her niche as a scenarist during the era of silent films, when the flickers were considered a low form of entertainment and cer...You can read this and all of my reviews at Lit Wit Wine Dine.I really enjoyed The Swans of Fifth Avenue and started getting excited about The Girls in the Picture as soon as it was announced In fact, it was the book I was most excited about receiving at Book Expo 2017 Melanie Benjamin was as much a delight in person, at her in booth signing, as she is on her social media accounts She even allowed me to blather on about her kitchen reno it looks fantastic and her cats at some length without You can read this and all of my reviews at Lit...3.5 stars rounded up to 4I loved reading about these two trailblazing women in the filming industry Mary Pickford, America s Sweetheart , and Frances Marion, a renowned female screenwriter, known as a scenarist in the early days, and the first to win two Academy Awards The early days of Hollywood and the transition from silent films, the flickers , to talkies ...5 fantastical starsI am in awe and quite sleepless as well over this book In a word it was awesome Ms Benjamin has created for us a world that was early Hollywood It was a world where silent movies were becoming the rage and where woman were taking the reins or at least trying to in a society dominated and controlled by males We are introduced to two powerful women of the past, Mary Pickford and Frances Marion, who become great friends and travel the road to fame and stardom The year is 191 5 fantastical starsI am in awe and quite sleepless as well over this book In a word it was awesome Ms Benjamin has created for us a world that was early Hollywood It was a world where silent movies were becoming the rage and where woman were taking the reins or at least trying to in a society dominated and controlled by males We are introduced to two powerful women of the past, Mary Pickford and Frances Marion, who become great friends and travel the road to fame and s...The Girls in the Picture is a book that I knew that I wanted to read as soon as I saw it I love reading historical fiction about movie stars, or stories that in one way or another takes place in Hollywood Especially around the Silent movie era and when the talkies came I had only previously read Reckless Hearts A Story of Slim Hawks and Ernest Hemingway by Melanie Benjamin, but she has written several books that I want to read.What really struck me about this book was, despite, my deep love The Girls in the Picture is a book that I knew that I wanted to read as soon as I saw it I love reading historical fiction about movie sta...I am conflicted about The Girls in the Picture I am a huge fan of Mary Pickford and learned significantlyabout her in The Girls in the Picture, and I knew virtually nothing about Frances Marion so I enjoyed the details about her However, I felt the book was overly long and drawn out, and as I was reading I wished it had ended earlier in the women s lives In the Author s Note, Benjamin expl...An enlightening portrait of two creative and powerful women who helped shape Hollywood SUMMARYTHE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE is a look behind the scenes at the earliest days of Hollywood and the friendship between two legends Mary Pickford known as the girl with the curls, was America s first sweetheart She was a international superstar, who was mobbed upon her first time arrival in London She was the first actor to have her name put on a movie marque and she was the first to win an Academy Award An enlightening portrait of two creative and powerful women who helped shape Hollywood SUMMARYTHE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE is a look behind the scenes at the earliest days of Hollywood and the friendship between two legends Mary Pickford known as the girl with the curls, was America s first sweetheart She was a international superstar, who was mobbed upon her first time arrival in London She was the first actor to have her name put on a movie marque and she was the first to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in a talkie for Coquette Sh...I was drawn to this story based on the summary and the fact that I enjoyed two of Melanie Benjamin s previous books The Girls in the Picture is another good story Right off the bat, Benjamin s stage setting for the future partnership between America s Sweetheart Mary Pickford and renowned Academy Award winning screenwriter Frances Marion hooked me.Despite early rejection of powerful men in the movie industry, the success of Marion and Pickford s public screening of Poor Little Rich Girl put I was drawn to this story based on the summary and the fact that I enjoyed two of Melanie Benjamin s previous books The Girls in the Picture is another good story Right off the bat, Benjamin s stage setting for the future partnership between America s Sweetheart Mary Pickford and renowned Academy Award winning screenwriter Frances Marion hooked me.Despite early rejection of powerful men in the mov...

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02 February 2017

Melanie Benjamin