When Women Wrote Hollywood

When Women Wrote Hollywood
Author: Rosanne Welch
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-07-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476632774

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This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and characters beloved by audiences--but whose names have been left out of most film histories. The contributors trace the careers of such writers as Anita Loos, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Lillian Hellman, Gene Gauntier, Eve Unsell and Ida May Park, and explore themes of their writing in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life.


When Women Wrote Hollywood
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Rosanne Welch
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-11 - Publisher: McFarland

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This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and
Hollywood
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Jill Tietjen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-26 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director,
Without Lying Down
Language: en
Pages: 491
Authors: Cari Beauchamp
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-03-24 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Draws on personal letters, journals, and interviews with family members and colleagues to capture the life and times of Frances Marion.
When Women Wrote Hollywood
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Rosanne Welch
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-03 - Publisher: McFarland

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This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and
Anita Loos Rediscovered
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Anita Loos
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"I adored Anita, as did the entire fashion and literary world. She was four feet nine inches of lithe, slender, dramatic chic."—Carol Channing "This book cele