Posted by:
Tevai
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Date: October 11, 2018 02:50PM
ificouldhietokolob Wrote:
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> Tevai Wrote:
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> > The people who wrote for "Twilight Zone" were
> very
> > thoughtful people (all of those I personally
> know
> > about were/are males; if anyone is aware of any
> > female writers on "Twilight Zone," I would like
> to
> > learn any of these writers' names).
>
> Lucille Fletcher indirectly did -- a radio play
> she wrote for Orson Welles was adapted for an
> episode.
>
> Serling's wife Carol apparently wrote parts of
> many episodes, but almost never got credit.
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_FletcherOther than Serling's wife, this confirms my prior understanding of the situation. (Buying rights to script, or re-script, previously published/produced material is common, and was in that time one of the continuing injustices women writers were forced to "accept." Their original creative work was often definitely wanted, but not their film scripting talents. This was true at all levels, and in most creative capacities, of the industry, and still is to some extent.)
I am not surprised by the lack of credits to Serling's wife. For women, whether as the individual people they were, or as creative talents in their own rights, the surrounding minimalization (as in infantilizing them) was intense and monolithic.
I was the distinctly "younger generation" within these particular people (beginning when I was 16), and therefore on what we can now see as a kind of "tail-edge" of that kind of intense and unrelenting discrimination, but things are still in the PROCESS of "getting" "better." Improvements have been won, but equality of women in the industry based on proven talent and earned credits is still a goal to be aspired to.
Thank you, Hie!