CARI BEAUCHAMP

Cari Beauchamp is the award winning author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of early Hollywood. She also edited and annotated 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. Her book, Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s, was published in 2006 and her current project, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, will be published by Knopf in early 2009.

Cari wrote the documentary film The Day My God Died which aired on PBS and was nominated for an Emmy and she wrote and co produced the documentary film Without Lying Down, which aired on Turner Classic Movies and was nominated for a Writers’ Guild Award. She writes for Vanity Fair, Variety, Written By, Architectural Digest and various other magazines. She has been named an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar and her books have been selected for “Best of the Year” lists by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Amazon.

(Photo FRANCES MARION - FROM WITHOUT LYING DOWN)

Cari Beauchamp has appeared as a featured speaker at venues throughout the United States and Europe including The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Museum of Modern Art, The Edinburgh Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Women’s Museum of Art in Washington D.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Before turning to writing on a full time basis in 1990, she worked as a private investigator, a campaign manager and served as Press Secretary to Governor Jerry Brown. She lives in Los Angeles.

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