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Daughter of daring : the trick-riding, train-leaping, road-racing life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first stuntwoman / Mallory O'Meara.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.G53 O44 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Meara, Mallory, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stunt performers--United States--Biography.
- Stunt performers.
- Women stunt performers--Biography.
- Women stunt performers.
- Women in the motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History.
- Women in the motion picture industry.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Entertainers--20th century--Biography.
- Entertainers.
- Gibson, Helen, 1892-1977.
- Gibson, Helen.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Trick-riding, train-leaping, road-racing life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first stuntwoman
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- A biography of stunt performer Helen Gibson, known as "the most daring actress in pictures" during the Golden Age of 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 twentieth-century 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 serials--yet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and male-dominated evolution of cinema in the decades that would follow her.
- Contents:
- The invention of Hollywood
- The wild west
- The city of girls
- The movie star
- The hazards of Helen
- Women-made women
- Unusual feminine daring
- Strong female protagonist
- A daughter of daring
- The hair-raising business
- Universal city
- No man's woman
- Scandal and vice
- The sound of change
- The Golden Age of Hollywood
- A crack in the system
- A matter of guts
- Epilogue: Strong female protagonist 2 : electric boogaloo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-351) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781335007933
- 1335007938
- OCLC:
- 1493331427
- Publisher Number:
- 90102673431
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