Cari Beauchamp, the extensively revered historian and creator of a number of books on Hollywood who typically appeared on Turner Classics Motion pictures programming and on the community’s annual TCM Basic Movie Pageant, has died. She was 74.
TCM posted a tribute to Beauchamp on its Twitter/X web page Friday.
“We’re saddened to listen to of the lack of one in all our TCM household, trailblazing historian Cari Beauchamp,” the community wrote at present. With out her invaluable work, many feminine creatives could be misplaced to historical past. We’re grateful for her many contributions to our community over time.”
Beauchamp’s work centered on the function of girls in Hollywood, together with in her books With out Mendacity Down: Frances Marion and The Highly effective Girls of Early Hollywood and Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Non-public Letters from Contained in the Studios of the Nineteen Twenties. She additionally wrote Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, edited Anita Loos Rediscovered: Movie Remedies and Fiction by the Creator of Gents Choose Blondes and co-wrote Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Movie Pageant.
She was nominated for a WGA Award in 2001 for co-writing the documentary model of With out Mendacity Down, which first appeared on TCM. She wrote the 2003 Unbiased Lens documentary The Day My God Died, which uncovered the kid intercourse commerce in India. The doc earned a Finest Documentary Emmy nom.
She additionally regularly appeared as a speaking head in documentaries that centered on Hollywood, together with TCM’s Moguls and Film Stars: A Historical past of Hollywood and The Story of Movie. She additionally weighed in for the 2018 documentary Be Pure: The Untold Story of Alice Man-Blaché.
Beauchamp, who early in her profession was a political marketing campaign supervisor and served as Press Secretary to California Gov. Jerry Brown, turned an essential voice relating to all issues regarding Hollywood historical past. In line with her bio, she was twice named Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences Movie Scholar, and he or she was resident scholar on the Mary Pickford Basis.
“Sadly, we pay our respects to Cari Beauchamp, who, in her dedication to writing about highly effective girls in movie, left her mark on the business,” the latter basis posted at present. “We’re grateful to have identified Cari. She made a useful contribution to Mary Pickford’s legacy & so many feminine pioneers of cinema.”
Beauchamp was common on the speaker circuit, giving speeches at AMPAS, the British Movie Institute, the Edinburgh Movie Pageant, Cannes, the Girls’s Museum of Artwork in Washington D.C. and elsewhere. She was a daily speaker and moderator on the TCM Basic Movie Pageant in Hollywood.
As a author, her byline appeared in such publications as Deadline’s sister websites Selection and The Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Occasions, the New York Occasions and Self-importance Truthful.
