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Pamela Hutchinson

Freelance writer, critic and film historian

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Pre-code women for the Guardian

I wrote a feature for the Guardian about the relative freedoms afforded to female film stars on-screen in the Pre-code … More

Film stars, Guardian, Hollywood, Pre-code cinema, Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken, Women on film

1940s Hollywood melodramas

For the BFI, I took a look at 10 of the greatest Hollywood woman’s pictures of all time. First, fetch … More

BFI, Hollywood, melodrama, woman's picture

Hollywood and history

I wrote this feature for the Guardian’s G2 section about how Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood manipulates film history.

film history, g2, Guardian, Hollywood, Netflix

Frances Marion for Criterion

This month, the Criterion Channel is streaming a slate of films written by the wonderful Frances Marion. I wrote this … More

Criterion, Frances Marion, Hollywood, screenwriting, silent film, Talkies, Women in film

Slapstick Alley

For the Guardian, I wrote about the campaign to name an alley in Hollywood after the slapstick directors who filmed … More

Guardian, Hollywood, silent comedy, silent film

Leading men

It’s no secret that I adore Cary Grant. The recent retrospective at the BFI set me to thinking about where … More

Cary Grant, Hollywood, leading men, sexuality, Tortoise

Walk of Fame

Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame seems to be besieged by protests and pickaxes. I wrote about … More

Donald Trump, Guardian US, Hollywood, Walk of Fame

Moguls and starlets

In the light of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the wave of stories about other film industry professionals that … More

film history, Guardian, harassment, Hollywood

Jeni LeGon

  Jeni LeGon was a brilliant tap dancer and the first woman of colour to sign a contract with a … More

classic film, Hollywood, Jeni LeGon, musicals, racism, Sight & Sound

Louise Brooks v Hollywood

For the 110th anniversary of Louise Brooks’s birth, I wrote a feature for Little White Lies about her unique approach to … More

Hollywood, Little White Lies, Louise Brooks, silent film, stardom

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This Saturday I will be at @newparkcinema for Chichester International Film Festival, singing the praises of Olivia Colman in an illustrated talk, and introducing a screening of the phenomenal TYRANNOSAUR (Paddy Considine, 2011) https://chichestercinema.org/film/olivia-colman-talk/

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