Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

by J.E. Smyth

Book Overview

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 was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019084082X
• ISBN13: 9780190840822
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"