George Marion, Jr.

Marion, George (1860–1945), director and actor. Born in San Francisco, where he made his debut as an actor in a local stock company, he later toured with Lew Dockstader's Minstrels before settling in New York. Turning to directing, Marion staged many of Anna Held's early vehicles for her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld. Joining Henry W. Savage, he directed the producer's mountings of such successes as The Prince of Pilsen (1903), The County Chairman (1903), The College Widow (1904), The Merry Widow (1907), and Sari (1914). Although he continued to direct until the end of the 1920s, he insisted that acting was his first love, and after 1919 he regularly returned to the footlights, most notably when he created the role of Chris Christopherson in Anna Christie (1921).

• Occupation: Writer
• Active: '20s-'30s
• Major Genres: Comedy, Musical
• Career Highlights: The Gay Divorcee, Love Me Tonight, It
• First Major Screen Credit: The Eagle (1925)

Biography

The son of American stage and film actor George Marion, George Marion Jr. inaugurated his own show-business career writing subtitles for the 1925 Rudolph Valentino vehicle The Eagle. Moving to Paramount in 1926, Marion composed brief, witty titles for the films of Bebe Daniels, Clara Bow and other favorites. In 1929, he earned an Academy Award nomination for his titling efforts on 1927's Oh, Kay! Making a seamless transition to talkies, he wrote dialogue for such Paramount features as The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) and Love Me Tonight (1932). Later on, he moved to Paramount's next-door neighbor RKO, co-scripting films like The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Too Many Girls (1940). In addition to his screenwriting accomplishments, George Marion Jr. wrote song lyrics for a brace of 1930 films, Let's Go Native and Safety in Numbers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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