Women in Hollywood
In-Person – 1:10 pm – 2:50 pm
March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15 
Take a look at the changing role of women in Hollywood from its earliest days through the modern era.
- Week 1: Pioneer Days – How women directors and screenwriters helped build Hollywood and were then pushed aside
- Week 2: The 1930’s – Great stars, great roles; when female stars of the Golden Age briefly became as important as their male peers
- Week 3: Postwar era – Women sidelined in favor of male-dominated stories; the western and film noir takeover
- Week 4: Marilyn, Doris and Audrey – How three very different actresses came to prominence in Hollywood during the 1950’s and early 1960’s
- Week 5: Women directors – Why is the situation so different in Hollywood than in Europe?
- Week 6: Men can age, women can’t – How female stars have been sidelined in their forties and fifties while men have continued to star in films into their sixties and seventies
Joe Meyers earned his BA from Penn State with a major in journalism and minor in film. He is Director of Programming for the Focus on French Cinema film festival in Connecticut. He is co-host of the Spotify podcast ‘Now a Major Motion Picture!’ and wrote features about movies, theater and books for more than 30 years for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group and other publications. In the 1970’s, Meyers ran the first (and only) art house on the Delmarva Peninsula—the Lewes Cinema. In 2012, the Mystery Writers of America gave Meyers the Ellery Queen Award for his writing on crime fiction.