Marion Brooks

Not to be confused with actor Marion A. Brooks.

Marion Brooks
Born	January 21, 1896 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died	July 11, 1987(1987-07-11) (aged 91) California, USA
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, actress
Spouse	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]

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

• 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

• Martin Chuzzlewit (1912)
• Freezing Auntie (1912)
• Uncle Hiram's List (1911)

References

1. "Screen Couple Engaged, Wed at Lunch". The Los Angeles Times. 3 May 1923. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
2. "War Effects Fan Mail". The San Francisco Examiner. 2 Mar 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
3. "Florence Turner in 'Her Diary'". The Fresno Morning Republican. 10 Jul 1912. Retrieved 2019-12-28.