Nobody's girl Friday
Subtitle: the women who ran Hollywood
By: J.E. Smyth
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780190840822
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry; History
Description: "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 you should know about is Dalton Trumbo"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Preface; title: Introduction: the equal right to be the best; title: The fourth Warner brother; title: Organization women; title: Jills-of-all-trades; title: Madam president; title: Controlling the cut; title: Designing women; title: Last woman standing; title: Epilogue: the cellophane wall.