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Airdate: Women Who Run Hollywood

From Mary Pickford in the 1920s to contemporaries -who are the women who wield power in Tinsel Town?

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While the debate about a lack of diversity in Hollywood continues, Foxtel Arts will screen Women Who Run Hollywood, from Mary Pickford in the 1920s to contemporaries.

Women have been omnipresent in Hollywood on the other side of the camera almost from the beginning. Think of the most successful actress, producer and business woman Mary Pickford or Frances Marion, to name but a few. Only with the arrival of the talkies the male influence in Hollywood became dominant for the next decades. With Women’s Lib in the 70s and 80s the tide turned again. Well educated women with university degrees took Hollywood by storm. Paula Wagner, film producer of Tom Cruise who heads Cruise Wagner Productions, tells us about the new era in Hollywood. Other contributors include Robin Swicord, Linda Obst, Cari Beauchamps and Ally Acker, filmmaker and author of Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema.

Friday July 8 at 6.30pm on Foxtel Arts.

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