

Nobody's Girl Friday
The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Author: J. E. Smyth
Narrator: Karen White
Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/31/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Social Science, Film
Synopsis
Based on a decade of archival research, author J.E. Smyth uncovers a formidable generation working within the American film industry and brings their voices back into the history of Hollywood. Their achievements, struggles, and perspectives fundamentally challenge popular ideas about director-based auteurism, male dominance, and female disempowerment in the years between First and Second Wave Feminism.
Nobody's Girl Friday is a revisionist history, but it's also a deeply personal, collective account of hundreds of working women, the studios they worked for, and the films they helped to make. For many years, historians and critics have insisted that both American feminism and the power of women in Hollywood declined and virtually disappeared from the 1920s through the 1960s. But Smyth vindicates Bette Davis's claim. The story of the women who called the shots in studio-era Hollywood has never fully been told—until now.