Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Women screenwriters included Frances Marion, Anita Loos and June Mathis. In the 1920s, large banks assumed control of Hollywood production companies. Dorothy Arzner was the only woman filmmaker in this era. Germaine Dulac was a leading member of the French avant-garde film movement after World War I and Maya Deren did experimental cinema.
In the 1960s, British actress Julie Christie rose to fame as one of the world's most lusted-after bombshells. The leading lady of "Doctor Zhivago" and "Fahrenheit 451," Christie was not only a ...
She is also a leading figure in intersectional feminism and was the inaugural recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in 1998. Amanda Edwards - Getty Images Queen Lili'uokalani
She further collaborated with Sennett on other Keystone films and, during the late 1910s and early 1920s, she had her own movie studio and production company. [13] Other notable actresses who became directors include Grace Cunard and Nell Shipman. Women screenwriters were highly sought after in the early years of the cinema.
Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film. From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actress awards presented, Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress.
The Hollywood Reporter's 2017 Women in Entertainment Breakfast took place on Wednesday morning and brought together many of the industry's most recognizable leading ladies in front of the camera ...
Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress.She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly [1] until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. [2]
It's true: December 2017 will mark 40 years since "Saturday Night Fever" first premiered. And while the tabloids still love John Travolta, we haven't seen quite as much of Karen Lynn Gorney!