
Daughter of Daring
Mallory O'Meara
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February 18, 2025
Description
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.
Award-winning author Mallory O'Meara presents her life and career in exhilarating detail, including:
- Helen's rise to fame in The Hazards of Helen, the longest-running serial in history
- How Helen became the first-ever stuntwoman in American film
- The pivotal role of Helen's contemporaries--including female directors, stars, and stuntwomen who shaped the making of cinema as we know it.
Through the page-turning story of Helen's pioneering legacy, Mallory O'Meara gives readers a glimpse of the Golden Age of Hollywood that could have been: an industry where women call the shots.
Product Details
Publisher | Hanover Square Press |
Publish Date | February 18, 2025 |
Pages | 384 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781335007933 |
Dimensions | 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches | 1.1 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
Praise for Mallory O'Meara
"An insightful, entertaining feminist history." -USA Today on Girly Drinks
"Thorough, and thoroughly entertaining... Provoking both thought and laughter." -Publishers Weekly, starred review on Girly Drinks
"Fun facts abound in O'Meara's volume... A unique, entertaining resource to bolster culinary and women's studies collections." -Library Journal on Girly Drinks
"This is a book that should be on any beverage alcohol enthusiast's shelf."-American Whiskey Magazine on Girly Drinks
"An exhaustively detailed yet breezy history set against the arc of overall women's rights around the globe." -Kansas City Star on Girly Drinks
"Mallory O'Meara has put women at the center of a global history of alcohol. ...A whirlwind tour of the role women have played in what we drink, and how, when, and why we drink it."
--AMY STEWART, author of The Drunken Botanist
"Girly Drinks is anything but--a raw shot of boozy history that stings as well as it soothes!"
--PATTON OSWALT
"Cheers to Mallory O'Meara and her serious yet seriously entertaining treatise."
--JEANETTE HURT, author of Wisconsin Cocktails and Drink Like a Woman
"Thanks to [O'Meara's] persistent efforts, The Lady from the Black Lagoon pulls Milicent Patrick and her considerable accomplishments out of the murky swamp of overlooked history and back into the light." --New York Times Book Review on The Lady from the Black Lagoon
"Engaging and compelling." --Los Angeles Times on The Lady from the Black Lagoon
"Chatty, impassioned... O'Meara is a dogged researcher and a fierce partisan." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR "Fresh Air" on The Lady from the Black Lagoon
"Captivating and exhaustively researched...This is a fascinating slice of Hollywood history with a feminist slant." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Lady from the Black Lagoon
"This is a book that O'Meara was born to write, and she seamlessly meshes her own life story with that of her heroine... a riveting, sincere Hollywood saga that will quickly win your heart." --BookPage (starred review) on The Lady from the Black Lagoon
"An incisive criticism of the erasure of women in Hollywood." --Bustle on The Lady from the Black Lagoon
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