The Women Who Run Hollywood

52 mins
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.

Margaret Booth

Self (archive footage)

Lillian Gish

Self (archive footage)

Alice Guy-Blaché

Self (archive footage)

Lois Weber

Self (archive footage)

Frances Marion

Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford

Self (archive footage)

Anita Loos

Self (archive footage)

Ida Lupino

Self (archive footage)

Edith Head

Self (archive footage)

Dorothy Arzner

Self (archive footage)

June Mathis

Self (archive footage)

Mabel Normand

Self (archive footage)

Mae West

Self (archive footage)

Virginia Van Upp

Self (archive footage)

Sherry Lansing

Self (archive footage)

Peter Krajewski

Director of Photography

Mike Nolan

Director of Photography

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