Marion Fairfax, movie screenwriter and Broadway playwright, was born Marion Neiswanger in Richmond, Virginia, on October 25, 1875. After graduating from Chicago's South Division High School she went on to Emerson College in Boston. She went on the boards briefly as an actress before focusing her theatrical ambitions on writing. In 1899 Fairfax married actor 'Tully Marshall' , who headlined four other of her First National pictures. Tully Marshall passed away on March 10, 1943. Marion Fairfax died on Otober 2, 1970, and was laid to rest in an unmarked grave next to her husband at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
Her body lies in an unmarked grave next to husband Tully Marshall at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
