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Pioneering Women of Hollywood

When we think of women in Hollywood, we often think of those up on the screen. Granted some of those women, like Mary Pickford, Ida Lupino, and Greta Gerwig for example, became powerful and influential behind the scenes, but Hollywood, from its earliest days, was built by women directors, writers, and those less high profile roles.

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13 items

  • Daughter of Daring

    the Trick-riding, Train-leaping, Road-racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman

    O'Meara, Mallory,
    BookToronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2025] — B Gibson
  • The Lady From the Black Lagoon

    Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

    O'Meara, Mallory,
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2019] — B Patric
  • Inventing the It Girl

    How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

    Hallett, Hilary A., 1968-
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2022] — B Glyn
  • Hollywood's Eve

    Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

    Anolik, Lili
    BookNew York : Scribner, [2019] — B Babitz
  • The Queens of Animation

    the Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

    Holt, Nathalia, 1980-
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 791.433 Hol
  • The Women Who Built Hollywood

    12 Trailblazers in Front of and Behind the Camera

    Rubin, Susan Goldman
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2023] — 791.43 Rub
  • Nobody's Girl Friday

    the Women Who Ran Hollywood

    Smyth, J. E., 1977-
    BookNew York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018] — 384 Smy
  • Hedy's Folly

    the Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

    Rhodes, Richard, 1937-
    BookNew York : Doubleday, c2011. — B Lamarr
  • Pickford

    the Woman Who Made Hollywood

    Whitfield, Eileen, 1951-
    BookLexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1997. — B Pic
  • Liberating Hollywood

    Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema

    Smukler, Maya Montanez
    BookNew Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019] — 791.43 Smu
  • BookNew York, NY : Greenhaven Publishing, 2020. — 362.883 Met
  • Leading Lady

    Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker

    Galloway, Stephen (Journalist),
    BookNew York : Crown Archetype, [2017] — B Lansin