Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood - Hardcover
by J. E. Smyth
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190840822ISBN-10:019084082XUPC:9780190840822Book Category:Performing Arts, Social Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Film, Women's Studies, TelecommunicationsBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.40 x 6.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCHAFP5AR5
Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190840822ISBN-10:019084082XUPC:9780190840822Book Category:Performing Arts, Social Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Film, Women's Studies, TelecommunicationsBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.40 x 6.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCHAFP5AR5
J.E. Smyth is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and author or editor of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane (2006), Edna Ferber's Hollywood (2009), Hollywood and the American Historical Film (ed., 2012), Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance (2015), and the BFI classics monograph on From Here to Eternity (2015).
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