The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016-05-16 | 52 minutes
Plot Summary
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood. And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten. Incredibly, it also took until 2010 for the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to win the Oscar for Best Director. Even if underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.
Cast
-
Paula WagnerSelf
-
Lynda ObstSelf
-
Robin SwicordSelf
-
Margaret BoothSelf (archive footage)
-
Lillian GishSelf (archive footage)
-
Alice Guy-BlachéSelf (archive footage)
-
Lois WeberSelf (archive footage)
-
Frances MarionSelf (archive footage)
-
Mary PickfordSelf (archive footage)
-
Anita LoosSelf (archive footage)
-
Ida LupinoSelf (archive footage)
-
Edith HeadSelf (archive footage)
-
Dorothy ArznerSelf (archive footage)
-
June MathisSelf (archive footage)
-
Mabel NormandSelf (archive footage)
-
Mae WestSelf (archive footage)
-
Sherry LansingSelf (archive footage)
Recommendations
-
Inside 'Interstellar'
-
Despicable Me 2
-
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
-
The Avengers
-
The Intouchables
-
Frozen
-
Heat
-
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
-
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-
A Clockwork Orange
-
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
-
Loving Vincent
-
The Bourne Supremacy
-
Sherlock Holmes
-
I Am Legend
-
Shrek
-
A Million Ways to Die in the West
-
Meet the Parents
-
The Thing
-
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Similar Movies
-
Vital Signs
-
Los Angeles Film Noir
-
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
-
De cendres et de braises
-
Long Time Comin'
-
Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage)
-
Food
-
Fists of Pride
-
How to Cook Your Life
-
Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig
-
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
-
The Battle of The Alamo
-
The Artist Is Absent : A Short Film On Martin Margiela
-
A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution
-
Finding Hillywood
-
Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)
-
Home of the Brave
-
Norman Wisdom: His Story
-
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
-
Full Metal Village