Paris Was a Woman

  • Rated 6.4 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1996
  • 1h 15m
  • Documentary

Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.

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Director
Greta Schiller
Starring
Juliet Stevenson, Shari Benstock, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas

Cast

  • Juliet Stevenson

    Juliet Stevenson

    Narrator (voice)

  • Shari Benstock

    Self

  • Gertrude Stein

    Self (archive footage)

  • Alice B. Toklas

    Self (archive footage)

  • Janet Flanner

    Self (archive footage)

  • Samuel Steward

    Self (archive footage)

  • Marie Laurencin

    Marie Laurencin

    Self (archive footage)

  • Sylvia Beach

    Self (archive footage)

  • Adrienne Monnier

    Self (archive footage)

  • Gisèle Freund

    Self

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