Marion Brooks

{{Infobox person | name = Marion Brooks | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = January 21, 1896 | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, USA | death_date = {{death date and age |1987|7|11|1896|1|21|mf=yes}} | death_place = California, USA | occupation = 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380283282/?terms=%22Marion+Brooks%22+scenario|title=Screen Couple Engaged, Wed at Lunch|last=|first=|date=3 May 1923|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-28}}</ref>

== 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.<ref name=":0" /> From the late 1920s and into the 1940s, she was head of Paramount's fan-mail department.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/457996686/?terms=%22Marion+Brooks%22+scenarist|title=War Effects Fan Mail|last=|first=|date=2 Mar 1940|website=The San Francisco Examiner|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-28}}</ref> 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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/606953178/?terms=%22Marion+Brooks%22+scenario|title=Florence Turner in 'Her Diary'|last=|first=|date=10 Jul 1912|website=The Fresno Morning Republican|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-28}}</ref>

=== As actress === * ''Martin Chuzzlewit (1912)'' * ''Freezing Auntie'' (1912) * ''Uncle Hiram's List'' (1911)

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