NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — American-born French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker was the first black woman to start in a major silent film in 1927, but her career was far from silent. Ann ...

During Hollywood’s early years, women commonly occupied positions of filmmaking power. In the silent era there were a dozen women directors and several dozen women screenwriters. A couple of women ...

When thinking about the classic Hollywood era of filmmaking, we tend to think about movies made under the restrictive, prudish rules of the Hays Code. Protestant moralism meant that films after 1934 ...