Cinema’s Femmes Fatales, Females Villains, and ‘Nasty Women’

Did you know, that before the movie industry moved out West and Hollywood established itself as the dream factory, the film industry was very experimental and so much more open to women in the wide range of creative characters they could take on — from good to bad — and women were also prominently engaged in the business of making films. Dozens and dozens of powerful women worked as directors in the early days of cinema. But those powerful women were gradually squeezed out of the movie industry, and women’s acting roles became more restricted, particularly after Hollywood gained substantial financial backing from Wall Street. <a href="https://historybehindnews.medium.com/cinemas-femmes-fatales-females-villains-and-nasty-women-1ae640952663">Read More</a>