Mary Pickford: The Movie Star Businesswoman
Margaret Booth: The First Film Editor
Frances Marion: The Award-Winning Writer
STRUGGLING IN THE SYSTEM (1930s)
Dorothy Arzner: The Only Female Filmmaker
Mae West: The Sex Symbol vs the Code
Hattie McDaniel: The Oscar Winner
Anna May Wong: Erasure and Exoticism
Hedy Lamarr: The Pin-Up with the Patent
Olivia de Havilland: The Lawmaker
Dorothy Dandridge: Fighting Against Stereotype
Joan Crawford & Bette Davis: The Famous Feud
Jane Fonda: New Hollywood Icon
Pam Grier: The Blaxploitation Hero
MODERN HOLLYWOOD (1980s–2000s)
The Firsts: Female Filmmakers of Color
Dr. Stacy L. Smith: Information Is Power
J.J. Abrams and Paul Feig: Men Who Help Women
Keri Putnam: ReFraming The Issue
Mya Taylor: Transforming Hollywood
Octavia Spencer: Scene Stealer
Jennifer Siebel Newsom: Using Her Voice
Debbie Reynolds & Carrie Fisher: Mother-Daughter Icons
Denise di Novi: From Producer To Director
Nicole Perlman: Writing Her Own Script
Rachel Morrison: Striking Images
By writing this book, Alicia Malone has cast an important spotlight on women who deserve to be known for their incredible contributions to film and to society as a whole. The artists and businesswomen that you will read about in these pages, women like Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino, and Mary Pickford among other incredible women, deserve all of the credit we can give them because that is something that has been stolen from them.
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