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The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer
Rita Lakin
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Description for The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer
Hardcover. A compelling acount of Rita Lankin's time working in Hollywood during the male dominated industry of the early 1960s Num Pages: 304 pages, Two 8-page photo inserts. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPK; APT; BGF; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 686.
Rita Lakin was a pioneer ä a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years in creative meetings she was literally the only woman in the room. In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table. Widowed with three young children she talked herself into a secretarial job at Universal Studios in 1962 despite being unable to type or take dictation. With guts skill and humor she rose from ... Read more
Rita Lakin was a pioneer ä a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years in creative meetings she was literally the only woman in the room. In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table. Widowed with three young children she talked herself into a secretarial job at Universal Studios in 1962 despite being unable to type or take dictation. With guts skill and humor she rose from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781495014055
SKU
V9781495014055
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Ref
99-15
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