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Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman
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Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman in Bloomington, MN
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From
LA Times
bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.
Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentiethcentury silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars. Her exploits on motorcycles, train cars, and horseback were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serialsyet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and maledominated evolution of cinema in the decades that would follow her.
Awardwinning author Mallory O'Meara presents her life and career in exhilarating detail, including:
Helen's rise to fame in
The Hazards of Helen
, the longestrunning serial in history
How Helen became the firstever stuntwoman in American film
The pivotal role of Helen's contemporariesincluding female directors, stars, and stuntwomen who shaped the making of cinema as we know it.
Through the pageturning story of Helen's pioneering legacy, Mallory O'Meara gives readers a glimpse of the Golden Age of Hollywood that could have been: an industry where women call the shots.
LA Times
bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.
Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentiethcentury silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars. Her exploits on motorcycles, train cars, and horseback were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serialsyet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and maledominated evolution of cinema in the decades that would follow her.
Awardwinning author Mallory O'Meara presents her life and career in exhilarating detail, including:
Helen's rise to fame in
The Hazards of Helen
, the longestrunning serial in history
How Helen became the firstever stuntwoman in American film
The pivotal role of Helen's contemporariesincluding female directors, stars, and stuntwomen who shaped the making of cinema as we know it.
Through the pageturning story of Helen's pioneering legacy, Mallory O'Meara gives readers a glimpse of the Golden Age of Hollywood that could have been: an industry where women call the shots.
From
LA Times
bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.
Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentiethcentury silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars. Her exploits on motorcycles, train cars, and horseback were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serialsyet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and maledominated evolution of cinema in the decades that would follow her.
Awardwinning author Mallory O'Meara presents her life and career in exhilarating detail, including:
Helen's rise to fame in
The Hazards of Helen
, the longestrunning serial in history
How Helen became the firstever stuntwoman in American film
The pivotal role of Helen's contemporariesincluding female directors, stars, and stuntwomen who shaped the making of cinema as we know it.
Through the pageturning story of Helen's pioneering legacy, Mallory O'Meara gives readers a glimpse of the Golden Age of Hollywood that could have been: an industry where women call the shots.
LA Times
bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.
Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentiethcentury silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars. Her exploits on motorcycles, train cars, and horseback were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serialsyet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and maledominated evolution of cinema in the decades that would follow her.
Awardwinning author Mallory O'Meara presents her life and career in exhilarating detail, including:
Helen's rise to fame in
The Hazards of Helen
, the longestrunning serial in history
How Helen became the firstever stuntwoman in American film
The pivotal role of Helen's contemporariesincluding female directors, stars, and stuntwomen who shaped the making of cinema as we know it.
Through the pageturning story of Helen's pioneering legacy, Mallory O'Meara gives readers a glimpse of the Golden Age of Hollywood that could have been: an industry where women call the shots.
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