Episode 070—Hollywood Days of the Female Gaze (feat. Claire S. Duffy)

Movies are a man's industry, except when you consider that Hollywood was essentially built by women. Author, screenwriter and Hollywood history super-nerd, Claire S. Duffy joins to chat about the women who made the movies, and then men and code that wrote them out of the final edit of history. From Mary Pickford and Dorothy Azner to Greta Gabo and our dear friend Frances Marion, these are the women who built Hollywood.

RDJ as Chaplin Mary Pickford on camera
Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks at Pickfair Estate
Mary Pickford & Frances Marion
Dir. Dorothy Azner
Anne Bauchen, Academy Award winning editor
Margaret Booth, edited Ben Hur
Cecil B. DeMille + Gloria Swanson: Why Change Your Wife?
DeMille + Swanson: Male and Female
Where Are My Children - Lois Weber film about abortion (1916)
Stills from Where Are My Children 1, 2, 3
Greta Garbo kissing woman in Queen Christina
Greta Garbo as Queen Christina
Joseph Breen
William Hays
Roscoe Arbuckle & Virginia Rappe

More on Claire:

Claire S. Duffy (aka CS Duffy) is an author and screenwriter. Her crime thriller series, the Glasgow Kiss series, is now on Book #6: Alone in the Dark. She is also the writer of new time travel fantasy Before Again and The Stranger for Storytel. Claire's most recent project is a substack series on the OG women of Hollywood. All this info and more on her website: csduffywriter.com!

Listen and learn more from Claire on her episode of Under The Kilt

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn Original Art: Sarah Cruz Animations: The Banditry Co.

SPONSORS: This season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, Herbiery Brewing & The Banditry Co.