by Michele Genthon | Jan 29, 2015 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Thank you to KUOW radio for introducing me to a film from 1939 that starred only women. Predictably titled The Women, it was based on a play by Clare Boothe Luce and adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin. There were 130 speaking roles and, although the...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 23, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Megan Ellison was the first woman producer to receive two Best Picture nominations in one year, but that was not enough to earn her a place on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. Only twenty-eight years old, Megan Ellison is...
