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Barbara Stanwyck (/ˈstænwɪk/; born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer.

#BarbaraStanwyck pinged hard for her lesbian fans, even in movies where she had to pretend to be in love with a dude.

A gay actor named Clifton Webb, who played her husband in Titanic, called Stanwyck “my favorite American lesbian.” 

“Stanwyck’s screen characters defined themselves on their own terms,” writes Axel Madsen in The Sewing Circle: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women. “Stanwyck was emotionally honest, and the way she related to men was different.” 

She was deeply closeted, burying her secret underneath her well-defined and daunting career ambitions and a really shitty but relatively brief marriage to a gay vaudeville star that inspired the film A Star is Born. 

She ultimately spent thirty years with her publicist Helen Ferguson.

Alleged relationships & lovers: Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Helen Ferguson, Tallulah Bankhead

Source: #HERSTORY

Top 10 Most Sexually Prolific #Lesbians and #Bisexuals Of Old Hollywood

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#pioneer #filmindustry #womeninfilmindustry #PalianShow #OldHollywood #femaledirector #movies #oldcinema #filmherstory #solidaritywitheverywoman

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Let's talk filmmaking! Reposted from @covenfilmfest Here's to all the people out there making movies where women actually have a voice! 👏 #MotivationMonday⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #womenmakingmovies #filmsbywomen #womenartists #womendirectors #womenfilmmakers #womenscreenwriters #womenproducers #directing #filmmaking #screenwriting #directors #filmmakers #screenwriters #womeninfilm #femalelead #strongfemalelead #indiefilm #indiefilms #indiefilmmaking #filmherstory #shedirected #hirethesewomen #supportwomenartists #storytelling #storytellers #femaledirectors #femalescreenwriters #femalefilmmakers (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7jh6F6H6j3/?igshid=y5hhikgrohef

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Five women who should be in pictures

I sincerely hope this tumblr doesn't just turn into a repository for all the twitter stuff that won't fit into 140 characters, but since I didn't get to blather nearly enough about the women I tagged with #filmherstory over there, I'm going to say a whole lot more right here and now. Watch me. 

1. Eleanor of Arborea - Judge, queen, defender of birds. Grew up in a small independent section of Sardinia during its occupation by Spanish forces in the late 1300s. After her father died and her brother was killed, Eleanor became regent to her infant son, promptly rallied all Sardinia against the occupiers, and proceeded to take back most of the island. She was responsible for the Carta de Logu, a body of laws that lasted over four hundred years after her death and, among other things, preserved the property rights of Sardinian women. Eleanor also used her mighty legislative powers to protect a species of falcon that was later named in her honor.

2 for 2. The Kandakes (warrior queens) of Kush (modern Sudan), especially one-eyed Amanirenas, who's responsible for the condition of that decapitated bronze head of Caesar Augustus with the weird eyes that's currently housed in the British Museum. She and her army routed the Roman soldiers in Meroe, stormed Augustus's temple there, hacked the head off the statue of the emperor and buried it under the temple steps as symbolic gesture of their esteem. And also Amanitore, who commanded the building of numerous pyramids, temples, reservoirs -- oh, and this depiction of what is best in life.

3. Faith Hubley - The whole Hubley clan is amazing but Faith is just astounding. Political activist, artist, filmmaker, family woman, and all of them in equal measure. In the mid-1970s she was diagnosed with breast cancer, but continued working on freelance shorts and commercials with her husband. Then a couple of years later John Hubley died while they were in the middle of a project, and what did Faith do? Only finished animating the entire rest of the film all by herself, and then went on to make more than twenty-five more in as many years before finally succumbing to the disease that was supposed to have done her in a quarter century before.

Here’s Faith looking back on her early career in movies:

Dede [Allen] and I were trying to get hired in editing, and they would say, “No you can’t, because you’re a girl.” We’d say, “Well, why not?” They’d say, “Well you’re not strong enough.” Then we would gain a lot of weight and show them we could lift heavy boxes, and then they would say, “We’re not relaxed with you. You don't swear.” Then we would practice saying “fuck” and “shit,” walking through the studio saying, “fuck shit fuck shit,” and then they would say, “That’s no way for a girl to talk.”

4. Alice Kober - Professor, language nerd, codebreaker (almost). She taught classics at Brooklyn College during WWII, transcribed books and exams to Braille for the benefit of blind students, and studied a plethora of ancient languages on her own time, including an undeciphered script called Linear B, one of the oldest forms of written Greek. She died in her forties, only a couple of years too soon to see the code cracked, but her hours upon hours of investigation (which in the end filled over forty notebooks and 180,000 cards, some of them written on purloined checkout slips from the college library due to wartime paper shortages) provided the vital clue to a mystery that had been puzzling cryptographers for over half a century.

5. Roquia Sakhawat Hussain - Early 20th century feminist and scifi author in Bengal. Devout Muslim wife and mother who founded a school for girls and encouraged the participation of women in debates and discussions concerning their lives and rights in colonial India. From wikipedia:

In 1926, Begum Roquia strongly condemned men for withholding education from women in the name of religion as she addressed the Bengal women's education conference:

The opponents of the female education say that women will be unruly ... fie! They call themselves muslims and yet go against the basic tenet of islam which gives equal right to education. If men are not led astray once educated, why should women?

There are so many more names I could post -- firefighter Brooke Guinan from my last five things, for one. But time is short and the list of women who deserve to have their stories known is so very discouragingly long. Maybe group efforts like this can go some way toward making it shorter.

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International Women's Day (with @AlltheWomen!)

http://wp.me/p5rQjg-3a @AlltheWomen brings us kickass women in history in celebration of #internationalwomensday #feminism #ladymafia #filmherstory

While we at Acro Collective believe that every day is a day for celebrating women’s accomplishments, International Women’s Day is an opportunity to remind ourselves to tell the women around us that we love and admire them. It’s also a chance to reassert the amazing achievements by women in history, which all too often fall through the cracks.

Today, we want to highlight @AlltheWomen, an instagram…

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Actress Barbara Stanwyck

#BarbaraStanwyck pinged hard for her lesbian fans, even in movies where she had to pretend to be in love with a dude.

A gay actor named Clifton Webb, who played her husband in Titanic, called Stanwyck “my favorite American lesbian.”

“Stanwyck’s screen characters defined themselves on their own terms,” writes Axel Madsen in The Sewing Circle: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women. “Stanwyck was emotionally honest, and the way she related to men was different.”

She was deeply closeted, burying her secret underneath her well-defined and daunting career ambitions and a really shitty but relatively brief marriage to a gay vaudeville star that inspired the film A Star is Born.

She ultimately spent thirty years with her publicist Helen Ferguson.

Alleged relationships & lovers: Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Helen Ferguson, Tallulah Bankhead

Source: #HERSTORY

Top 10 Most Sexually Prolific #Lesbians and #Bisexuals Of Old Hollywood https://www.autostraddle.com/10-old-hollywood-stars-who-enjoyed-scissoring-343227/

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#femaledirector #movies #oldcinema #filmherstory #lesbianvisibilityweek #PalianShow #OldHollywood

#solidaritywitheverywoman

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Dahomey by Mati Diop, a documentary focusing on the 2021 return to the Republic of Benin of twenty-six royal artifacts stolen by French soldiers in the nineteenth century, has won the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear.

Read: artforum.com/news/documentary-on-repatriation-looted-benin-artworks-captures-top-honor-at-berlin-film-festival-550103/

Mati Diop (born 22 June 1982) is a French-Senegalese filmmaker and actress, most known for her role in the 2008 film 35 Shots of Rum, and niece of the prominent senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty.

At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, her feature debut film Atlantics, for which she became the first African female director to be in contention for the Palme d'Or, won the Grand Prix (2nd place).

Her second feature, the documentary Dahomey, won the Golden Bear, at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, the festival's top prize.Via Wikipedia

#MatiDiop poses with the #GoldenBear for Best Film at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, February 24, 2024.Photo: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images

#artforum #news #documentary #benin #artworks #berlinfilmfestival #Senegalese #french #Senegalesefrench #frenchfilmmaker #PalianShow #filmsbywomen #womenfilmdirectors #artbywomen #film #movie #filmherstory #cinematography

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Audrey Hepburn (b. Audrey Kathleen Ruston; #bornonthisday 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian.

Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. via Wikipedia

#AudreyHepburn #Herstory #WomeninFilm #PalianShow #womeninfilmindustry #retrocinema #filmherstory

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Ava Lavinia Gardner in 1942, 19 years-old, Employment ID photo at MGM

Ava Lavinia Gardner (Dec 24, 1922 – Jan 25, 1990) was an American actress. She was of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. via W

#AvaLaviniaGardner #oldmovies #blackandwhitecinema #filmherstory #retrostyle

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Isabelle Adjani in La Raine Margot, 1994

Isabelle Yasmina Adjani LdH (born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer.

She is the only person in history to win five César Awards;

she won the #BestActress award for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009).

She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2010 and a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014.

photo source via Kasbah Salome (fb) : www.facebook.com/516480298409807/posts/5132621956795595/

#IsabelleAdjani #womeninfilm #filmherstory

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The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/female-gaze-100-overlooked-films-directed-by-women

In this list we aim to write women back into film history by championing 100 female-directed hidden gems that have been forgotten or unfairly overlooked – with contributions from Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Varda, Tilda Swinton, our regular contributors listed below and many more special guests.

Updated: 2 January 2022

Time for a disclaimer: this list is far from definitive, but we hope it gives a sense of some of the great, unduly neglected films made by women throughout film history from all over the world – and of the many others

— Isabel Stevens

#directedbywomen #femaledirector #womeninfilm #filmherstory #PalianShow #JaneCampion# GretaGerwig #ClaireDenis #IsabelleHuppert #AgnèsVarda #Tilda Swinton #womeninfilmindustry