Two women seated One is pointing at someone off camera
Once the powerful woman in Hollywood and then ghosted from film and cultural history: Mary C. McCall Jr. , 3x president of the Screen Writers Guild (now WGAW). Screenwriter. Feminist. Blacklisted. 🎂 With Dorothy Arzner,1936.
#skystorians #filmsky #WomenFilmmakers #Hollywood #screenwriter
Woman smoking pipe, sitting on desk near typewriter. B/w.
Mary C. McCall Jr.
(April 4, 1904-April 3, 1986)
“When Heaven forgets to protect the working girl, she has to do the best she can on her own.”
So the problem isn’t just the rotten, misogynist production system in today’s Hollywood; it is the way film and media “history” are taught to students.
Women were an important part of the Hollywood workforce 80-90yrs ago. They were screenwriters and labour leaders like McCall. Not just actresses.
A few years after I wrote “Nobody’s Girl Friday,” my history of the women who worked for the Hollywood studios, I overheard the guy who teaches Hollywood cinema at my university say to another guy that they didn’t need to “decolonize” the curriculum in his department “because only men made films.” 🤮
Two women seated One is pointing at someone off camera
Once the powerful woman in Hollywood and then ghosted from film and cultural history: Mary C. McCall Jr. , 3x president of the Screen Writers Guild (now WGAW). Screenwriter. Feminist. Blacklisted. 🎂 With Dorothy Arzner,1936.
#skystorians #filmsky #WomenFilmmakers #Hollywood #screenwriter
Alec Guinness/George Smiley pauses as he reads a folder full of papers.
Happy St George’s Day 🏴
Grace O'Malley-Kumar's belongings were thrown out by Nottingham University after she was murdered by paranoid schizophrenic
This isn't a failure of process -- it's a failure of humanity
Universities must set clear standards of conduct & ethics to staff
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Times obituary of theatre entrepreneur Robert Fox: he died..."at home looking out to his flower-filled garden on a glorious spring afternoon".
You can't ask for better than that when it's time to go.
Alain Delon on the set of "Doucement les basses", 1971.
#AlainDelonn #Delon #film
And today’s top stories….
#armageddon #bbc
Every Sunday evening.
My happy place.
In the UK, the House of Lords (also called Peers 🤔) voted to pardon women who had already been convicted of illegal abortion and to expunge police records of those arrested. This comes after the gov't decriminalized women in June. The anti-choice movement is furious women can't be jailed anymore.
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.
Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
Save the UK Greenbelt from another US data centre: c.org/WBF4kmtv66
#banAI #fuckEquinix #greenbelt
Bill Evans by Roberto Polillo, 1965.
B and w photo Caine is standing at back. He’s the tallest of course.
Blond British soldier in red uniform
Michael Caine with 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers, A Platoon, C Company and at the 70th anniversary of the Korean War ceasefire. And playing Gonville Bromhead, VC, in Zulu.
This year’s birthday film: The Whistle Blower (1986).
💝✌️🎂
Checkmate.
« There is, she says, a small but reasonable chance that your boss is a psychopath, given that people with dark personality traits are over-represented in senior management. » 👇🤔
1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....
White standing doll facing forwards with blonde hair tied back wearing a dark top and matching trousers
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), French painter, obtained a police permit to wear "men's clothes' as expected female fashions were so restrictive. She was so popular that girls were given dolls dressed in trousers to mimic Rosa’s unconventional style #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such a transgenerational link has been clearly established.
Promotional graphic Women’s History Month: Biography and Memoir. Six book covers are displayed in two rows: If I Am Right, and I Know I Am by Hanne Strager; Colored Insane by Diana Martha Louis; The Remarkable Madame Pandit by Manu Bhagavan; Mary C. McCall Jr. by J. E. Smyth; The Souths in Her by Nicole M. Morris Johnson; and Her Truth and Service: edited by Amy Yeboah Quarkume. sidebar reads Recommended reading. Bottom, text: Save 20% with code WHM at cup.columbia.edu, alongside the CUP logo.
Celebrate Her Story this #WomensHistoryMonth. Discover the women who reshaped history—from diplomat Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to seismologist Inge Lehmann, from Lucy Diggs Slowe’s fight for equity to Mary C. McCall Jr.’s Hollywood power plays—and more. buff.ly/A2XI2HS #HerStory #WomenInHistory #STEM
studio photo of Bette Davis wearing a white shirt, short dark tie and jacket. She is a white woman with light hair.
#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.
Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood 🗃️
David holding Hobo the dog, his costar in ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies’.
´I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it’s not that easy. Acting is what’s easy.’
—David Niven #BOTD 💖 🎥 🎂#FilmSky #writers
Petition · Stop the Proposed #TrumpTower Development on the #GoldCoast - Australia 🇦🇺
www.change.org/p/stop-the-p...
Kino Lorber and Eureka have released it. Maybe Criterion doesn’t think he’s commercial enough. 🤣
Used to be irritated the Criterion Collection snubbed Fred Zinnemann’s films (the only one of his they’ve reproed is REDES and he’s only got a codirector cred for that). But this 👇 makes me think he’d be fine with not being part of the ‘brand’…
#Zinnemann #FilmCanons
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
