Here’s Why Hollywood’s Roles For Women Historically Were In The Bedroom

Here’s a brilliant throwback photo series showing television interviewer Michael Parkinson talking with Oscar-winning actor Shirley MacLaine in 1975. She talks about why Hollywood was difficult for women and why powerful women’s roles, well, sorta disappeared.

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Mar 20, 2014

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