Marion Orth


Marion Orth was an American screenwriter of the silent and sound eras of Hollywood. She was a frequent collaborator of director Lois Weber.

Biography

Orth began her career as a playwright and magazine writer, publishing in Breezy Stories as early as 1917. In 1920, she moved from Chicago to Los Angeles at the invitation of Lois Weber, who had purchased the film rights to two of Orth's stories, "The Price of a Good Time" and "Borrowed Clothes". Orth went on to write several films with and for Weber, including A Midnight Romance, To Please One Woman, Too Wise Wives, and The Blot.
In 1923, she signed a seven-picture contract at Universal as a scenarist; her efforts at the studio included work on The Price of Pleasure and Dorothy Arzner's The Wild Party. She also wrote a string of films for Fox. In 1934, she began writing for Monogram Pictures.
In 1938, she settled a lawsuit with Republic for releasing a 1937 film called Circus Girl based off her novel. Orth was awarded $10,000.
Orth's apparently final film was released in 1944.

Selected filmography