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  1. “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

    , 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

    In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

  2. “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

    #OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

    In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

    #HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  3. “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

    #OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

    In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

    #HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  4. “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

    #OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

    In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

    #HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  5. “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

    #OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

    In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

    #HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  6. Fading Lights: The Lingering Shadows of Hollywood's Golden Age

    Many actors from Hollywood's Golden Age are not well-known today. Learn why some stars from the 1930s-1960s are less remembered.

    #GoldenAgeHollywood, #ForgottenActors, #HollywoodHistory, #ClassicFilm, #FilmNostalgia

    newsletter.tf/hollywood-golden

  7. Fading Stardom: Hollywood's '70s Luminaries Slip from Collective Memory

    Many famous actors from the 1970s are not well-known anymore. This report explains why their fame faded and what happened to their careers.

    #1970sHollywood, #FadingFame, #ForgottenActors, #HollywoodHistory, #FilmLegacy

    newsletter.tf/hollywood-1970s-

  8. HOLLYWOOD'S SEVENTIES GLORY FADES: WHERE ARE THE ICONS NOW?

    Explore what happened to Hollywood's iconic 1970s stars. Some still shine, others stepped back. See their journeys.

    #70sHollywood, #MovieIcons, #ActorJourneys, #HollywoodHistory, #ThenAndNow

    newsletter.tf/hollywood-70s-ic

  9. Many Hollywood stars from the 1970s are less visible now. Their iconic roles from decades ago are remembered, but their current careers have changed.

    #70sHollywood, #MovieIcons, #ActorJourneys, #HollywoodHistory, #ThenAndNow
    newsletter.tf/hollywood-70s-ic

  10. #OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.

    #ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  11. #OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1980, Sherry Lansing is appointed as president of production at 20th Century Fox: she is the first woman to lead a Hollywood studio.

    Mary Pickford had co-owned United Artists, but not run it.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
    #HollywoodHistory #Histodons

  12. Happy birthday to the movie icon!
    💫 A screen legend who bridged worlds: Yvonne De Carlo dazzled in 1940s–50s Hollywood epics and became an icon of gothic television as Lily Munster. Timeless, versatile, and unforgettable.

    #YvonneDeCarlo #ClassicFilm #VintageCinema #TheMunsters #ScreenLegend #CultTV #HollywoodHistory

  13. Happy birthday to the movie icon!
    💫 A screen legend who bridged worlds: Yvonne De Carlo dazzled in 1940s–50s Hollywood epics and became an icon of gothic television as Lily Munster. Timeless, versatile, and unforgettable.

    #YvonneDeCarlo #ClassicFilm #VintageCinema #TheMunsters #ScreenLegend #CultTV #HollywoodHistory

  14. Happy birthday to the movie icon!
    💫 A screen legend who bridged worlds: Yvonne De Carlo dazzled in 1940s–50s Hollywood epics and became an icon of gothic television as Lily Munster. Timeless, versatile, and unforgettable.

    #YvonneDeCarlo #ClassicFilm #VintageCinema #TheMunsters #ScreenLegend #CultTV #HollywoodHistory

  15. Happy birthday to the movie icon!
    💫 A screen legend who bridged worlds: Yvonne De Carlo dazzled in 1940s–50s Hollywood epics and became an icon of gothic television as Lily Munster. Timeless, versatile, and unforgettable.

    #YvonneDeCarlo #ClassicFilm #VintageCinema #TheMunsters #ScreenLegend #CultTV #HollywoodHistory

  16. #OnThisDay, 24 June 1916, Mary Pickford becomes the first Hollywood star to sign a million-dollar contract.

    This is Pickford, who was a queen of PR as well as the screen.

    At the time, standard studio contracts were for a year. She signed a *two-year* contract as both an actor *and* a producer. That bumped its value across the $1m barrier and got her the headlines.

    #ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  17. Lorna Moon, she liked the ring of it,
    transformed from Nora Helen Wilson Low.
    Names need to have a resonance, a fit
    and this could take her where she yearned to go…

    —Kay Clive, “Lorna Moon”
    published in NORTHWORDS NOW 40 (Autumn-Winter 2020)

    4/4

    northwordsnow.co.uk/issue40/Lo

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire #poem #poetry

  18. “The story of how Marion & Kate Corbaley tricked the studio executives into paying Lorna Moon $7500, while reviving Marie Dressler’s career, should be a legend in the history of female networking in the motion picture business”

    from the Women Film Pioneers Project, Columbia University

    3/4

    wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire

  19. As well as scriptwriting, Moon achieved critical success with her 1929 novel DARK STAR – “an uncompromising picture of rural life… it explores the precarious social structures, sexual instabilities & surface hypocrisies that shape its confines”. It was adapted for the screen as MIN & BILL (1930), starring Marie Dressler & Wallace Beery

    2/4

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire

  20. The Far Side of Lorna Moon

    “I’m always either convinced that nobody can write as I can – or that I’m the world’s louseyest writer.”

    Lorna Moon (1886–1930) was born #OTD, 16 June, as Nora Helen Wilson Low, in Strichen. Dr Glenda Norquay writes about her journey from Aberdeenshire to Hollywood

    1/4

    asls.org.uk/the-far-side-of-lo

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #owmenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire