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TIME [May 10] erred in dubbing smart, capable Fanchon Simon as "cinema's only woman producer." At least four other ladies have been or are producing pictures. Pioneer feminine filmaker was Lois Weber. Frances Marion, celebrated scenariowriter, is the latest recruit. Others include Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid) and the youngest and most prolific, Fanchon Royer, who manages five growing children and her own independent production company, Fanchon Royer Features...
...actors' representative before she began producing pictures in 1927 (she was 25 then). She has since made approximately 30 pictures and is the only woman producer who owns and runs her own company, producing and financing her action-adventure pictures. Often confused in the past with Stage-Production Fanchon, now that the latter has entered pictures, Film's Fanchon Royer anticipates more confusion...
...Fanchon Royer Features...
...Fanchon was the creative brains of the outfit. She built her whole show around some novel production number, blending costumes and tunes to whatever the girls were doing. They came out on bicycles, skates and skis. They wore bunny costumes, appeared disguised as flowers, birds or animals. Fanchon & Marco, Inc. snowballed until theatres which had bought franchises from them became bankrupt and in order to keep units out they had to become theatre operators. Fanchon & Marco shrank from 52 units a year to two units a month...
...Fanchon is married to William H. Simon, proprietor of a string of Los Angeles dairy lunches. They have adopted two children. She is a tall woman with aquiline features and wild hair who, like many over-energetic people, walks with a shuffle. She admires Strindberg's plays, feels that men make better actors than women and that her sex has little place in the production end of show business. "Once a woman stops being feminine, people don't like to have her around." Her present deal is the result of an interview with Adolph Zukor in which...