070 - Hollywood Days of the Female Gaze (feat. Claire 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

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CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

Animations: The Banditry Co.

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

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