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Inequity Alert: TCM’s 15 most overlooked directors

posted by Women & Hollywood
Friday, June 5, 2009 at 1:21pm CDT

I really don’t know how these things get done but to create another list of directors and this time having it be overlooked directors and not to include any women just blows me away.

From the press release: Turner Classic Movies unveiled the network’s list of 15 most overlooked classic Hollywood directors. The list includes stylish visionary Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven), sci-fi director Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man), the prolific Allan Dwan (Sands of Iwo Jima), Disney stalwart Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins), screwball-comedy director Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey) and blacklisted filmmaker Robert Rossen (All the King’s Men).

Here’s a quote:

“As much as we love the work of famous directors, those of us at TCM also respect the work of the men and women who never gained widespread fame,” said Charlie Tabesh, senior vice president of programming for TCM. “There are a lot of great filmmakers who are, to many film fans, still almost unknown.”

Hey Charlie- where are the women?

Here’s their full list:

Jack Arnold

Frank Borzage

Clarence Brown

John Cromwell

Allan Dwan

John Farrow

Edmund Goulding

Henry King

Gregory La Cava

Mitchell Leisen