Nobody's girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood / J. E. Smyth.

Author: Smyth, J. E., 1977- author.

ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Descriptionxv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note:Introduction: the equal right to be the best -- The fourth Warner brother -- Organization women -- Jills of all trades -- Madam president -- Controlling the cut -- Designing women -- Last woman standing -- Epilogue: the cellophane wall.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index.

Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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