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Without Lying Down
Frances Marion and the Power
of Women in Hollywood
(2000)

2003 Milestone Collection DVD edition

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000), color and black & white, 55 minutes, not rated,
with A Little Princess (1917), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID1025MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-10252-9.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 6 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 8 chapter stops, standard DVD keepcase, $29.99.
DVD release date: 11 March 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This edition of the documentary by Bridget Terry on writer and director Frances Marion and other accomplished women in Hollywood, with narration by Uma Thurman and the voice of Kathy Bates, with appearances by Cari Beauchamp, Fay Kanin, Mary Lea Bandy, Martha Coolidge, Robin Swicord, Callie Khouri, Polly Platt and Leonard Maltin.

The disc also contains a full-length presentation of Mary Pickford in A Little Princess (1917) as supplementary material.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase this Region 1 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase this Region 1 NTSC DVD edition from Amazon.ca.

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