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9781335007933

STARRED REVIEW

Daughter of Daring

Mallory O’Meara’s Daughter of Daring chronicles Hollywood’s first stuntwoman and celebrates the brief, vibrant golden age for women in film.

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Review of ‘Daughter of Daring’

Hollywood film historian Mallory O’Meara specializes in recovering the lost feminist history of filmmaking. O’Meara’s celebrated 2019 biography of Milicent Patrick, original designer of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, uncovered the true story of how Patrick’s achievements in cinema were co-opted by male coworkers. In Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding,…

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