Alma Reville
Alma Reville was a skilled film writer, director, and editor in her own right, but many of her contributions to her husband, Alfred Hitchcock’s, films went unacknowledged.
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Bessie Mae Kelley
Bessie Mae Kelley was a pioneer of early film animation
Gail Simone
Comic writer Gail Simone worked for years on Birds of Prey, Batgirl, and Wonder Woman, for whom she was the series’s longest-running writer. She was the first female writer to take over the Birds of Prey series after its initial run and created the character of Huntress as well as Alysia Yeoh, one of the first major transgender comic book heroes.
Adele Masi Lessona
Italian scientific and literary translator
Zora Cross
Australian writer and actor
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Egyptologist who spearheaded an international campaign to save 22 Nubian monuments in Egypt and Sudan, which would have been submerged by the lake created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Catherine Turney
1940s film writer Catherine Turney was known for writing great women characters—strong, independent, and funny. Her films included The Man I Love (1947), A Stolen Life (1946), My Reputation (1946) and Mildred Pierce (1945).
Helen Kirkpatrick
Journalist and war correspondent
Dickey Chapelle
Photojournalist and war correspondent
Alma Mahler
Austrian composer