#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.

Davis’s started in Hollywood in 1930, winning her first Best Actress Oscar in 1935 and her second in 1938. She co-founded the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first woman to be President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

#WomenOfCinema #WomenInHistory #OtD #HollywoodHistory #Histodons

#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.

Davis’s started in Hollywood in 1930, winning her first Best Actress Oscar in 1935 and her second in 1938. She co-founded the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first woman to be President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

#WomenOfCinema #WomenInHistory #OtD #HollywoodHistory

#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood with fellow actor Douglas Fairbanks, actor and director Charlie Chaplin and director D W Griffith. Their hope was to circumvent the growing studio system by owning their own creative output.

Pickford was also the first Hollywood movie star to sign a million dollar contract.

#ReclaimTheFrame
#WomenBehindTheCamera #WomenInHistory #HollywoodHistory #History

#OnThisDay in #History:

#Kmart stores remove #SteveMartin's live comedy album #LetsGetSmall for being "in poor taste."

Read more:
https://www.historyshapes.com/he-hates-these-cans/

#Histodons #HistoryFacts #OTD #Comedy #ComedyHistory #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #1970s #PopHistory #Cartoon #WebComic #Comics #Illustration #MastoArt #HistoryShapes

I am slowly going through my teaching/course files. I cannot help but look at some of the notes and wonder about what I may have been reading at the time.

A sample sketch I used for lecturing in History of American Cinema, 2006.

#Teaching #1950s #Hollywoodhistory #FilmHistory

#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#histodons #HollywoodHistory

Okay Mastodon, I'm going to throw this question out there and see what happens. Boosts appreciated.

Q: When did the term "development hell" first come into use in Hollywood? I assume it was used in meeting rooms before it saw print in the trade papers, and was likely changed to "development purgatory/limbo" when it did appear in print. But if any Hollywood historians can point to actual instances, that would be cool.

#Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #FilmProduction #DevelopmentHell

Just read that The Desert Fox, dir. Henry Hathaway, 1951, might be the earliest film with a pre-credits action sequence. Can that be true? #ClassicFilms #FilmMaking #HollywoodHistory