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A noted playwright prior to entering films in the mid-1910s, Virginia-born Marion Fairfax was closely associated with director Marshall Neilan, for whom she wrote Freckles (1917) featuring Jack Pickford, the incredibly popular Dinty (1920) starring child actor Wesley Barry, John Barrymore's The Lotus Eater (1921), and Bob Hampton of Placer (1922). Fairfax also joined the ranks of female directors when she produced, wrote, and helmed the sentimental The Lying Truth (1922). Fairfax's perhaps most famous film, the science-fiction thriller The Lost World (1925), was also one of her last. The wife of one of the silent era's best known character actors, Fairfax sometimes billed herself "Mrs. Tully Marshall" and was at one point also a noted film editor.