Paris Was a Woman

  • Documentary
2/19/1996
75

Storyline

Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.

Director:
Greta Schiller
Writer:
Andrea Weiss
    • woman director
    • lesbian

    Cast

    • Juliet Stevenson
      Narrator (voice)
    • Shari Benstock
      Self
    • Gertrude Stein
      Self (archive footage)
    • Alice B. Toklas
      Self (archive footage)
    • Janet Flanner
      Self (archive footage)
    • Samuel Steward
      Self (archive footage)
    • Marie Laurencin
      Self (archive footage)
    • Sylvia Beach
      Self (archive footage)
    • Adrienne Monnier
      Self (archive footage)
    • Gisèle Freund
      Self
    • Jean Bernard
      Self (archive footage)
    • Solita Solano
      Self (archive footage)
    • Josephine Baker
      Self (archive footage)
    • Paul Valéry
      Self (archive footage)
    • Natalie Clifford Barney
      Self (archive footage)
    • Berthe Cleyrerque
      Self

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