J. E Smyth
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Disillusioned with what the American film industry had become by the 1970s, Bette Davis remembered a time when "women owned Hollywood." This book is their story. Historian J.E. Smyth challenges the belief, reinforced in too many histories and public comments, that feminism died between 1930 and 1950, that women were not important within the Hollywood studio system, that male directors called all the shots, and that the most important Hollywood writer...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Mary C. McCall Jr. was, according to studio head and frequent negotiating counterpart, Jack Warner, the "meanest woman in town." She was also the first woman elected president of the Screen Writers Guild, friends with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, enemies with RKO's Howard Hughes, and a victim of the Hollywood's anti-communist blacklist. During the and 1940s and early 1950s, McCall reigned as one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood and secured...
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