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

"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 195...

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Main Author: Smyth, J. E., 1977- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Physical Description:xv, 304 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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