Helen Gibson Silent Serial Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Helen Gibson Silent Serial Queen write by Larry Telles. This book was released on 2013-12. Helen Gibson Silent Serial Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. She followed her dream into film history. Circus, rodeo, film, vaudeville and stunt double. Helen Gibson got into film during the time when movies were silent and cameras were cranked. Long before certain individuals on a movie set would be called to double for an actor or actress. Long before a stunt woman learned the trade in a special school. Helen learned that skill on the job and through her instincts.
The Woman Who Dared
The Woman Who Dared - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman Who Dared write by William M. Drew. This book was released on 2023-03-07. The Woman Who Dared available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early days of motion pictures—before superstars, before studio conglomerates, before even the advent of sound—there was a woman named Pearl White (1889–1938). A quintessential beauty of the time, with her perfectly tousled bob and come-hither stare, White's rise to stardom was swift; her assumption of the title of queen of American motion picture serials equally deserved. Born the youngest of five children in a small, rural Missouri farm town, White first began performing in high school. She would eventually make the decision to cut her education short, dropping out to go on the Trousdale Stock Company. A bit player in the early years of her career, she was eventually spotted by the Powers Film Company in New York. She made her film debut in 1910 and soon set herself apart from her female colleagues with her reputation for fearless performances that often involved her own stunt work. It was that same daring attitude that would put her on the map internationally as an actress. From flying airplanes to swimming across rapid rivers, to racing cars in serials like The Perils of Pauline (1914), White was undaunted by the demands of her onscreen career. She went on to star in popular serial classics such as The New Exploits of Elaine (1915), The Iron Claw (1916), The Fatal Ring (1917), and The Lightning Raider (1919). As active socially as she was professionally, White would also lend her audacious spirit to activism as she took part in the early feminist movement. Her bravery and mastery of her craft made her a positive role model for suffragettes who battled for women's rights in the United States. The Woman Who Dared: The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the Serials, is the first full-length biography of this pioneering star. In this study of film history and female agency, Drew delves into the cultural impact of White's work and how it evolved along a concurrent trajectory with the social upheavals of the Progressive Era.
Renegade Women in Film and TV
Renegade Women in Film and TV - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renegade Women in Film and TV write by Elizabeth Weitzman. This book was released on 2019-02-05. Renegade Women in Film and TV available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A charmingly illustrated and timely tribute to the women who broke glass ceilings in film and television, debuting during an historic time of change in the entertainment industry. Renegade Women in Film and TV blends stunning illustrations, fascinating biographical profiles, and exclusive interviews with icons like Barbra Streisand, Rita Moreno, and Sigourney Weaver to celebrate the accomplishments of 50 extraordinary women throughout the history of entertainment. Each profile highlights the groundbreaking accomplishments and essential work of pioneers from the big and small screens, offering little-known facts about household names (Lucille Ball, Oprah Winfrey, Nora Ephron) and crucial introductions to overlooked pioneers (Alla Nazimova, Anna May Wong, Frances Marion). From 19th century iconoclast Alice Guy Blaché to 21st century trailblazer Ava DuVernay, Renegade Women honors the women who succeeded against all odds, changing their industry in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
Pink-Slipped
Pink-Slipped - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pink-Slipped write by Jane M Gaines. This book was released on 2018-02-23. Pink-Slipped available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished from memory. Using individual careers as a point of departure, Jane M. Gaines charts how women first fell out of the limelight and then out of the film history itself. A more perplexing event cemented their obscurity: the failure of 1970s feminist historiography to rediscover them. Gaines examines how it happened against a backdrop of feminist theory and her own meditation on the limits that historiography imposes on scholars. Pondering how silent era women have become absent in the abstract while present in reality, Gaines sees a need for a theory of these artists' pasts that relates their aspirations to those of contemporary women. A bold journey through history and memory, Pink-Slipped pursues the still-elusive fate of the influential women in the early years of film.
Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen
Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen write by Anne Nesbet. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a publicity stunt goes terribly wrong, twelve-year-old Darleen Darling, star of the silent film era, must defeat villains both on screen and off in this edge-of-your-seat adventure. Lights! Camera! Kidnapping? It’s 1914, and Darleen Darling’s film adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping set up by her studio becomes all too real. Suddenly Darleen finds herself in the hands of dastardly criminals who have just nabbed Miss Victorine Berryman, the poor-little-rich-girl heiress of one of America’s largest fortunes. Soon real life starts to seem like a bona fide adventure serial, complete with dramatic escapes, murderous plots, and a runaway air balloon. Will Darleen and Victorine be able to engineer their own happily-ever-after, or will the villains be victorious?
