Read Lois Weber: More than a Writer-Director She’s the Auteur Activist of Early Cinema Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:From Silent Murder Mysteries to Andy Hardy’s Americana, Agnes Christine Johnston Wrote it Al
Read Her Career Outlasted the Hays Code: Kathryn Scola Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024So Much More than M
Born just 4 years after the end of the Civil War in Boonville, Missouri, the scripts Julia Crawford Ivers wrote (and sometimes directed) often tackled issues of prejudice. After the war, her family emigrated to Los Angeles. As with many fem
Born on Christmas Day in 1876 in Massachusetts, Dix and her family lived in various cities around the historic state until she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study English and History at Radcliffe College. There she became the first femal
The surname DeMille (or de Mille) brings up thoughts of the famous line from Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler’s Sunset Boulevard “Mr. de Mille, I’m ready for my close up” which references silent screen director Cecil. Perhaps people remember
Read From Silent Murder Mysteries to Andy Hardy’s Americana, Agnes Christine Johnston Wrote it All Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosa
At San Diego Who Con 2024 (https://www.sdwhocon.com/), I enjoyed lecturing on “From Shakespeare to Shelley or Dante to Dickens: The Literary References Who Has Introduced You To!”. I first thought of it while watching an episode with my favori
With the conference theme “A Conversation Beyond Script,” I decided to use my presentation time to “Celebrate the Daring Dialogue of Women Writers,” which allowed me to introduce the audience to the work of famous female screenwriters, from Ani
Read She Co-Wrote ‘The Maltese Falcon’ But You’ve Never Heard Her Name Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine,
I always say I could talk about The Monkees all day – or at least for an hour, which is what I just had the privilege of doing with Joe Russo of The Monkees Pad on YouTube. It’s especially fun to talk with folks like Joe, who know The Monkees s
Read Serial Queen Ruth Ann Baldwin Knew How to Craft a Cliffhanger Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, Janu
Read Adapting Classic Novels Not the Only Tool in her Kit: Silent Screenwriter Dorothy Farnum Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne
Read Where’s Her Museum? Betty Burbage Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024So Much More than
Read From High School Teaching to Writing the First Screenwriting Bible: Marguerite Bertsch Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, F
Many thanks to SRN member Romana Turina for inviting me to give an online seminar on the benefits of Flipping Your Classroom for the Working Group on Comparative Screenwriting in the Screenwriting Research Network that she leads. Every month sh
Read Hobnobbing with Her Fellow Writers (and Wizards) Across the Decades – The Screenwriting Career of Florence Ryerson Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of
Read Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January
Read So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024Fr
Read Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings Read about more women from early Hollywood Related posts:From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November
Though she never wrote a horror film, to celebrate Halloween this month’s focus is screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins, born on October 30, 1886. In 1935 Akins would become the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize
Though she never wrote a horror film, to celebrate Halloween this month’s focus is screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins, born on October 30, 1886. In 1935 Akins would become the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize
In this presentation given at the 2023 San Diego WhoCon I talked about what really happened at Pompeii on volcano day; the agricultural knowledge of the Aztecs; when Robin Hood began appearing in literature, and the bravery of Noor Inayat Khan
In this presentation given at the 2023 San Diego WhoCon I talked about what really happened at Pompeii on volcano day; the agricultural knowledge of the Aztecs; when Robin Hood began appearing in literature, and the bravery of Noor Inayat Khan
Though she never wrote a horror film, to celebrate Halloween this month’s focus is screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins, born on October 30, 1886. In 1935 Akins would become the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize
If you love seeing dinosaurs come to life on screen and you think they first appeared on screen in Jurassic Park, think again. In 1926 renowned screenwriter-director Marion Fairfax adapted Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World to the screen