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When Women Made the Movies
posted January 12, 2013
In "Go West, Young Women: The Rise of Early Hollywood," Hilary Hallett explains how, thanks to immigrants seeking out futures and fortunes, Los Angeles became a burgeoning film city – and, in 1920, the only western city where women outnumbered men.