Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders - Hardcover

O'Dell, Cary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786401672 ISBN 13: 9780786401673

Publisher: McFarland Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

Profiles such notable women as Lucille Ball, Faye Emerson, Betty Furness, Lucy Jarvis, Ida Lupino, and Betty White

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Nearly everyone is familiar with Lucille Ball's work on screen, but few realize her influence behind the scenes. Fewer still are aware that Judith Waller developed television's first all-education children's show, "Ding Dong School." Since its beginnings television has been heavily influenced by women, but their contributions are sometimes missing from histories of the medium. In this work, the lives and careers of 15 television broadcasting pioneers (Mildred Freed Alberg, Ball, Gertrude Berg, Peggy Charren, Joan Ganz Cooney, Faye Emerson, Pauline Frederick, Dorothy Fuldheim, Betty Furness, Frieda Hennock, Lucy Jarvis, Ida Lupino, Irna Phillips, Waller, and Betty White) are covered. The focus is on their work in the medium, but there is also discussion of the obstacles they were forced to overcome to reach positions of influence in the industry.

About the Author:

Cary O'Dell, the former archives director of the Museum of Broadcast Communications at the Chicago Cultural Center, now lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0786401672
• ISBN 13: 9780786401673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254