Don't Call Me Girlie (1985)

Directed by

Andree Wright, Stewart Young

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at the women who worked in the Australian film industry during the 1920s and 1930s. It covers their roles and contributions to filmmaking from that period.

informativenostalgichistoricalretrospectiveearneststraightforwardacademicfactual

What happens

Don't Call Me Girlie is a 1985 documentary about women in the Australian film industry in the 1920s and 1930s. There was an accompanying book, Brilliant Careers, by Andree Wright. The title is taken from a line spoken by Shirley Ann Richards in Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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