Cari Beauchamp Dies: Hollywood Author And Frequent TCM Contributor Was 74
deadline.comCari Beauchamp, the widely respected historian and author of several books on Hollywood who often appeared on Turner Classics Movies programming and at the network’s annual TCM Classic Film Festival, has died.
She was 74. TCM posted a tribute to Beauchamp on its Twitter/X page Friday. “We are saddened to hear of the loss of one of our TCM family, trailblazing historian Cari Beauchamp,” the network wrote today.
Without her invaluable work, many female creatives would be lost to history. We are grateful for her many contributions to our network over the years.” Beauchamp’s work focused on the role of women in Hollywood, including in her books Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood and Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s.
She also wrote Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, edited Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by the Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and co-wrote Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival.
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