TV series
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986 · 1 season
A thoughtful, interview-driven look at overlooked women, warm with archival detail and quietly indignant about the barriers they faced.
- Created by
- Esther Ronay, Jo Ann Kaplan
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Miriam Margolyes, Sylvia Syms, Kay Mander
- Overview
- A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.
- How it feels
- Earnest, warm and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Gender, work, art, class
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Esther Ronay, Jo Ann Kaplan
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Miriam Margolyes, Sylvia Syms, Kay Mander










