Marion Brooks (1896–1987) was an American actress, entertainment journalist, and screenwriter active in Hollywood during the silent era.
[1] Marion was born in Illinois to Nathaniel Brooks and Catherine Adler.
She began working as an actress in Hollywood in the early 1910s, and went on to forge a career as a screenwriter.
She met and married actor Robert McKinney (who went by the name Russell Richie professionally) on a film set in 1923.
[2] She also worked as an entertainment journalist; he writing appeared in film magazines like Screenland.