The Legacy Series

The Legacy Series was created to document the personal and creative worlds of exceptional women in Hollywood whose accomplishments paved the way for new generations of women working in the film and television industries. The filmed interviews of these inspiring women (working both behind and in front of the camera) create an enduring record of their extraordinary achievements.

Preserved and housed in a special Women In Film Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, this body of work is designed to be an invaluable source of research, knowledge, and inspiration for film aficionados, scholars, and future women in film television. The full-length versions of these interviews are available for public viewing as part of the Women In Film Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center.

LEGACY SERIES

Through a series of one-on-one interviews conducted over the past 8 years, WIFF has built the Legacy Series into a significant library that includes videotaped interviews with the following trailblazing women:

DEBBIE ALLEN - Producer, Director, Choreographer, Actor
MARILYN BERGMAN - Lyricist
ELSÉ BLANGSTED - Music Editor
BARBARA BOYLE - Chair, UCLA School Of Theater, Film And Television, Attorney/Producer/Executive
ANNE V. COATES - Editor
MARTHA COOLIDGE - Director
ELIZABETH GABLER - Producer/Executive
DOROTHY JEAKINS - Costume Designer
GLORIA GOLDSMITH - Writer
JUDITH JAMES - Producer
IRMA KALISH - Writer
FAY KANIN - Writer
EVELYN KEYES - Actress
PIPER LAURIE - Actress, Director

NANCY MALONE - Director
CARYN MANDABACH - Producer
MARCIA NASATIR - Producer, Production Executive
LUPE ONTIVEROS - Actress
MARGARET O'BRIEN - Actress
DOROTHEA G. PETRIE - Producer
MARION ROSENBERG, O.B.E. - Personal Manager/Producer
EVA MARIE SAINT - Actress
CATHY SCHULMAN - Producer/Executive
SUSAN SMITH - Manager
GLORIA STUART - Actress
META WILDE - Script Supervisor
FAY WRAY - Actress
JANE WYATT - Actress

THE LEGACY SERIES AND UCLA MOTION PICTURE ARCHIVE

Many of these inspiring histories would be lost forever if it weren’t for the Legacy Series and its partner, the UCLA Motion Picture Archive. The Women In Film Collection at the UCLA Film and Television Archive is the only collection in the world dedicated to preserving the history of women in Hollywood. The WIFF Fellowship with the UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) program ensures the continued long-term preservation of women’s outstanding achievements in film. The WIFF/MIAS fellowship is awarded annually to a UCLA MIAS graduate student.
The UCLA Motion Picture Archive has the complete collection of Legacy Series interviews available for research and viewing. They are archived at the Women in Film Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive: For more information, or to arrange research viewing, please contact the Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) at 310-206-5388, or by e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Website: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/Profiles/womeninfilm.html

These audio and video interviews are also available for licensing for film, television, dvd and internet programming.

For more information on licensing, or on other areas of the Legacy Series, please contact:

Chairs, The Legacy Series

Ilene Kahn Power
c/o THE LEGACY SERIES
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Co-Chairs:

Linda Feferman

Susan Cartsonis

WIFF Coordinator: Erin Isobel Condron
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The Legacy Series would like to thank its Sponsors for their generous support

Phil Radin and Suzanne Lezotte

Michael Levy and The Post Group

Zachary Weintraub and Z Productions

Holly Brooks