Turner Classic Movies honors the women who shaped the early years of American cinema with an extensive month-long tribute throughout August. Our unprecedented programming line-up will feature the world premiere of an original documentary on Frances Marion, a documentary about Alice Guy and 36 films written, directed or produced by women from 1911 to 1953. The festival will be highlighted by the U.S. television premieres of 14 films. Also included will be 10 newly restored films, including the TCM funded restorations of Marion’s THE SCARLET LETTER (1926) and Helen Gardner’s CLEOPATRA (1912) as well as Lois Weber’s WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN? (1916). Women Film Pioneers begins August 3 at 8 p.m. (ET) with the world premiere of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, a TCM original documentary that explores the life and career of Frances Marion, the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood - male or female - for more than two decades and the first female writer ever to win an Oscar®. Narrated by Uma Thurman and featuring Kathy Bates as the voice of Marion, the documentary includes interviews with prominent women in film today, including Oscar®-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri, award-winning director Martha Coolidge, producer Polly Platt and screenwriter and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Fay Kanin. Film historians, friends and colleagues of Marion are also featured, including her biographer, Cari Beauchamp; pre-eminent silent film historian Kevin Brownlow; film critic Leonard Maltin; Museum of Modern Art film department chief curator Mary Lea Bandy; and Oscar®-nominated former child star Jackie Cooper. TCM’s tribute will also feature the world premieres of two TCM-funded restorations, complete with new musical scores. The TCM restoration of Marion’s THE SCARLET LETTER (1926) will feature 20 minutes of newly discovered footage and new music composed by film and television scoring team Lisa Anne Miller and Mark Northam. One of the first feature films ever produced, the restoration of Helen Gardner’s CLEOPATRA (1912), which was funded by TCM and restored by George Eastman House, will be scored by critically-acclaimed and double platinum record seller, Canadian composer and performer Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband, Our Lady Peace lead vocalist Raine Maida. Senior music lecturer at MIT and silent film scoring researcher, performer and author Martin Marks created and performed the score for Lois Weber’s controversial WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN? (1916) which was recently restored by the Library of Congress. Author and feminist film theorist Jane Gaines, who is a professor and director of the Program in Film and Video at Duke University and founder of the Women Film Pioneers project, will introduce the films with TCM host Robert Osborne. During the introductions, they will give historical details about the comprehensive collection of rarely or never-before broadcast films that will recognize the more than 100 women who wrote or directed films during the silent era, and countless others who contributed as actors, producers and technicians.