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Michael Glover Smith: There were dozens of female directors working in the American film industry in the silent era.

In the years immediately after World War II, there was only Ida Lupino. Why did Hollywood become more inhospitable to female filmmakers over time?

Therese Grisham: It happened at the end of the ‘20s and into the ‘30s.

Part of that was the centralization of the movie industry (in Hollywood).

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Another part of it was unionization of work, the kind of strict categorization of work. Prior to that, men and women worked in all facets of filmmaking. We’re talking behind the camera: you weren’t just an “X,” you did various things.

Once the jobs became categorized, that was no longer the case. And it seems inevitable at that point that the expendable people – we’re talking because it’s a patriarchal culture – would be women. So that (the silent era) was a real golden era: Lois Weber was a big pr