Marie Prevost Project • She Blogged By Night

The Marie Prevost Project began on November 8, 2009 — Marie’s 101st birthday, or so I thought at the time! Most sources back then listed her birth year as 1908, with a few listing 1898, only for me to eventually discover she was actually born in 1896, and shaved a few years off her age on various occasions. The project revealed a lot of new information about Marie at the time, and was always intended to be a somewhat intensive look at the life and career of a mostly forgotten silent era star, and as such, it involved a significant amount of research, as well as time and money spent locating copies of Marie’s still-extant films. Over the years, Marie has gone from being mostly forgotten to being somewhat well-known now, and I couldn’t be happier! There has been a truly wonderful amount of positive feedback for my project over the years, too, and several others have been inspired to work on their own projects, which is a terrific thing.

Not so terrific have been the demands from people for free research and information from me, including intimidation and threats, and more than one person falsely claiming that what I posted on the blog was not under copyright and therefore free to be appropriated at whim. After being told by a man who emailed me in 2011 to say he hadn’t even heard of Marie Prevost before, but was so interested in my posts he wrote a book based on them, then sold it to a low-rent publishing house who sniped the Marie Prevost domain name out from under me for their publicity, I officially canceled the project in 2013. Of some interest, perhaps, is that the project as of 2025 is simmering on a back burner, domain names have been obtained, and some scribbling of posts has ensued. We’ll see where that leads.

For anyone who has arrived here to research Marie Prevost, you’re welcome to use these posts as long as you source them as you would any other reference, but please note that there may be errors. As I have stated previously, everything I wrote for the SBBN Marie Prevost Project was posted in good faith, but after I began to do my own primary research and had assistance from others more experienced than I am, I realized much of my initial research was faulty and I never went back to correct some of it, mostly out of spite, to be honest. That means some of the information you’ll find here on the project is incorrect. But I am keeping those old posts as they were originally written for a reason: To have a clear record of exactly what I wrote, in case any copyright issues come up.

The project was originally posted on my old blog here, which has since been shut down and the posts imported to the current blog. All the Marie Prevost Project posts should have an accompanying link to the Internet Archive for those who want to see the post as it originally appeared.

I adore Marie and I had a blast working on this project, and I received dozens of terrific comments, help from fantastic researchers, and emails from a lot of people with their own exciting projects on Marie. I’ll always regret having to shut down the public part of this project — I continue to research Marie on my own, though without any concrete goal beyond an eventual written product of some sort — but I want to thank everyone who came along for the ride. It was fun while it lasted, and your support has always meant the world to me. Thank you!

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