Beauchamp, Cari
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Name (Latin)
Beauchamp, Cari
Other forms of name
Beauchamp, Carol, 1949-2023
Beauchamp, Carolann
Date of birth
1949-09-12
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Documentary films--Authorship
Documentary films--Production and direction
Motion pictures--History
Politics, Practical
Women's rights
Occupation
Motion picture producers and directors
Political activists
Press secretaries
Private investigators
Authors
Historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Sources of Information
- Hollywood on the Riviera, 1992:CIP t.p. (Cari Beauchamp)
- New York times, 22 Dec. 2023:in an obituary on page A21 (Cari Beauchamp; born Carol Ann Beauchamp on Sept. 12, 1949 in Berkeley, Calif., died Dec. 14 [2023] in Los Angeles, aged 74; a political adviser turned historian who documented the overlooked story of women in early Hollywood, when the film industry's chaotic beginnings allowed them to assert a surprising amount of power; Ms. Beauchamp's avenue throuugh the story is the life of Frances Marion, a screenwriter with more than 200 scripts to her name, two of which -- "The Big House" (1930) and "The Champ" (1931) -- won Oscars; Ms. Beauchamp spent six years working for the Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County)
- Washington post WWW site, viewed December 18, 2023(in obituary dated December 16, 2023: Cari Beauchamp, a Hollywood historian whose books chronicled the powerful women who shaped the film industry's early decades before being largely squeezed out by studio moguls in the 1940s, died Dec. 12 in Los Angeles. She was 74. Ms. Beauchamp became increasingly fascinated by film during years working as a private investigator for defense attorneys and stints in politics, including serving as California Gov. Jerry Brown's press secretary from 1979 to 1982 and working on efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment alongside Gloria Steinem and others; resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation. Carolann Beauchamp was born Sept. 12, 1949, in Berkeley, Calif. For the screen, she wrote and produced for a documentary for Turner Classic Movies based on "Without Lying Down," and wrote a PBS documentary, “The Day My God Died,” (2004) about sex trafficking in Nepal and India)
- Her Hollywood on the Riviera, 1992:CIP t.p. (Cari Beauchamp)
- Loos, A. Anita Loos rediscovered, c2003:ECIP t.p. (Cari Beauchamp) data view (b. Sept. 12, 1949)