News comes this week that there will be two new mini-series on the early years of Hollywood. The first from Turner Classics Movies will be a documentary series entitled Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood. The second from Sopranos creator David Chase entitled A Ribbon of Dreams will follow two characters (I’m sure men) men as they make their way in the business.
Wonder how women will figure in these stories because if you know your Hollywood history, you know that women were vital contributors to its early success.
Hope they all read Cari Beauchamp’s biography of Frances Marion Without Lying Down: Frances Marion And The Power Of Women In Hollywood which is an amazing overview of early Hollywood, as if women mattered. Turner Classics made the book into a doc so hopefully one of the researchers will check it out.
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