When Women Wrote Hollywood

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When Women Wrote Hollywood is written by Rosanne Welch and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1476668876 (ISBN 10) and 9781476668871 (ISBN 13).

This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and characters beloved by audiences--but whose names have been left out of most film histories. The contributors trace the careers of such writers as Anita Loos, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Lillian Hellman, Gene Gauntier, Eve Unsell and Ida May Park, and explore themes of their writing in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life.