Movies

October, 2001

It's no secret that men dominate the movies nowadays. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of women who have box-office clout, and it's even harder to think of a mainstream movie in which a woman actually carries the story.This wasn't always the case. In the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, women not only held their own in Hollywood, but they ruled the roost, too. Strong women such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck left such "utility" le...