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

This documentary directed 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 Milestone Collection
2003 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.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 11 March 2003.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This DVD edition has been mastered from original source materials.

Supplementary materials includes a full-length presentation of Mary Pickford in A Little Princess (1917). For our comparative review of the film, see our A Little Princess on home video page.

This is our recommended home video edition of the documentary.

This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .