PhoenixSerenityApr 11, 2023

#WinnifredEaton - often credited in #Hollywood as #WinnifredReeve - was born in #Montréal in 1875. She wrote & adapted scores of #screenplays for #MGM & #UniversalStudios - where she was #LiteraryAdvisor & EditorInChief from 1925 - 1930.

Eaton was the #first #Asian #screenwriter in Hollywood & the #FirstAsian & #FirstWoman — to head a Hollywood #ScriptDepartment

https://theconversation.com/amp/the-first-asian-screenwriter-in-hollywoods-1920s-dream-factory-winnifred-eaton-challenged-its-racism-202292

#AsianMastodon #AsianWomen #FilmIndustry #AsianPioneers #AsianRepresentation #WomensEmpowerment #SheCanDoIt

The first Asian screenwriter in Hollywood's 1920s ‘dream factory,’ Winnifred Eaton, challenged its racism

A team of scholars is digitizing the scripts of Eaton, the Montréal-born daughter of a Chinese mother and an English silk importer father.

The Conversation