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Apr 10, 2011 · No Job for a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII: Directed by Michele Midori Fillion. With Deborah Copaken, Dorothea Harahan, Julianna Margulies, Kathleen McNenny. Follows reporters Ruth Cowan, Martha Gellhorn, and Dickey Chapelle as they circumvent restrictions and prohibitions placed on female reporters by U.S. government during WWII ...
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- Michele Midori Fillion
- 2011-04-10
“No Job For a Woman”: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII tells this story through the lives and work of wire service reporter Ruth Cowan, magazine reporter Martha Gellhorn, and war photographer Dickey Chapelle.
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Follows reporters Ruth Cowan, Martha Gellhorn, and Dickey Chapelle as they circumvent restrictions and prohibitions placed on female reporters by U.S. government during WWII and push their reporting to focus on the human cost of war. Videos: Trailers, Teasers, Featurettes. Cast. Dorothea Harahan. Dickey Chapelle. Kathleen McNenny. Ruth Cowan.
- Dickey Chapelle; Ruth Cowan; Martha Gellhorn
- Michele Midori Fillion
- 2011
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Women reporters during WWII were told war reporting was No Job For a Woman. Buy the DVD, available for purchase from Women Make Movies, to find out how these women over came the restrictions and created a new way of telling the story of war. 2011, 61 minutes, Color, DVD, English
SYNOPSIS. When World War II broke out, reporter Martha Gellhorn was so determined to get to the frontlines that she left husband Ernest Hemingway, never to be reunited. Ruth Cowan’s reporting was hampered by a bureau chief who refused to talk to her.
The women who fought to report WWII Ruth Cowan was the first accredited female war reporter for the United States Army, the logical next step of her successful nearly 19 year reporting career.
