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...America by Producer Adolph Zukor in 1927, Lukas first appeared on the Hollywood silent screen opposite Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress. He took a recess from films and in 1941 scored his greatest stage triumph portraying Kurt Müller, the dogged anti-Nazi hero of Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine. Three years later he received an Oscar for best actor when he re-created the role on film...
Oscars were also given to GlendaJackson in Women in Love for best actress, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion for the best foreign film and Woodstock for the best feature documentary. Special awards were given to Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, the Beatles, Lillian Gish and Frank Sinatra...
...Currier House film series is almost shamefully apt, for that is pretty much the position of women in the movie industry: women are in films, but rarely on the other side of the camera. A few women have had productive careers as screenwriters-Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Jane Murfin, Lillian Hellman, and most recently, Adrian Joyce ( Five Easy Pieces ). But even before Pauline Kael began talking about it, it was easy to see that Hollywood treated writers (male and female) as little more than unfortunate necessities. Often, the most powerful women in the movie business are those actresses who married...
Outside their own movies, however, even this formidable trio has had little effect; where the game really counts-producing or directing-the female ranks are thin indeed. Lillian Gish directed one film ( Remodeling Her Husband, 1921), and Ida Lupino has half a dozen films to her some-what dubious credit. In Europe, the only woman director before 1960 that springs to mind is Leni Riefenstahl, responsible for the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The situation in the last decade seems to have improved-with the emergence of Agnes Varda, Shirley Clarke, Mai Zetterling, Joan Littlewood...
...Brando for a spell-and certainly John Wayne has defined the Western more than anyone, perhaps, except Ford and Hawks. Nevertheless, most great movie genres (especially before World War II) are female genres, and are dominated in very real ways by their female stars. The classic examples are Lillian Gish and Mac Marsh, who provided the polarities from which Griffith fashioned some of his greatest films. The "screwball" Depression comedies (with Lombard, Colbert, Arthur and the rest), the great foreign sirens (Grabo, Dietrich, and Lamarr), the singing blondes from Fox (Faye, Grable, and Monroe), Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn...