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Dr J.E. Smyth on Mary C. McCall Jr.

51 min • 26 maj 2025

Dr J.E. Smyth, a historian, film critic and professor at the University of Warwick, and author of books including Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood and Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History, joins us to discuss the subject of her book, Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter.

Get the book: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/mary-c-mccall-jr/9780231215282

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