Filmmaker: Marvin Breckinridge

Image of Breckinridge via The Library of Congress

Marvin Breckinridge

Gender:

Female

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1930 - Special Mention
National Film Registry (U.S.) 1996

Films:

Forgotten Frontier, The (1930)

• Video: via YouTube (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

She Goes to Vassar (1931)

• Video: Via YouTube

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Profession:

Photojournalist & Broadcaster

Biographical Notes:

Also known as Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson. Cousins with Mary Breckinridge, who founded the Frontier Nursing Service.

Bibliographic Resources:

Profile of Breckinridge via the Women Film Pioneers Project. The Library of Congress holds the Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Collection of her films and home movies, 1927-1976.