#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.
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#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.
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#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen is appointed US ambassador to Denmark.
As well as being the first woman to be appointed as a US Ambassador, Owen had been the first woman elected to Congress by the state of Florida in 1928.
Earlier in the 1920s she had been one of a number of women directing films in the silent era.
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#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
#OnThisDay, 12 Sept 1981, Margarethe von Trotta wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for 'Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit)'.
She was the first woman director to win the award since it started in 1949.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReclaimTheFrame #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Sept 2010, Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for 'Somewhere'.
She was the fourth woman director to have ever won the award since it started in 1949. Of the seven women to have won the prize, three have won it since 2020.
#OnThisDay, 7 Sept 1985, French film director Agnès Varda wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for her film Sans Toit Ni Loi (Vagabond). She was only the second woman to lift the award since it began in the 1940s.
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#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 #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 12 Sept 1981, Margarethe von Trotta wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for 'Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit)'.
She was the first woman director to win the award since it began in 1949.
#OnThisDay, 11 Sept 2010, Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for 'Somewhere'.
She was the fourth woman director to have ever won the award since it started in 1949. Of the seven women to have won the prize, three have won it since 2020.
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