Roberta Hodes is an American writer, director, producer, and script
supervisor who was active from the 1950s through the 1980s.After
graduating from Vassar College, she took acting classes in New York
City alongside people like Rod Serling, Harry Belafonte, and Rod
Steiger. She then spent time in Israel, where she got her first taste
of the film industry working on a documentary.She briefly went to
Hollywood, where she got a job as a script reader. She quickly began
to feel that she wouldn't have many opportunities as a woman in the
industry, so she moved back to New York. There, she got her start as a
script supervisor for Elia Kazan; three of her earliest credits were
on On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, and A Face in the Crowd.She later got
into producing, was noted as one of very few female producers during
the 1960s. She'd later co-write the 1962 film Lad, a Dog, and direct
the 1977 film A Secret Space. Later, she'd work as a professor of film
at New York University. She retired in the early 1990s after being
beaten by a police officer and suffering lasting injuries.
supervisor who was active from the 1950s through the 1980s.After
graduating from Vassar College, she took acting classes in New York
City alongside people like Rod Serling, Harry Belafonte, and Rod
Steiger. She then spent time in Israel, where she got her first taste
of the film industry working on a documentary.She briefly went to
Hollywood, where she got a job as a script reader. She quickly began
to feel that she wouldn't have many opportunities as a woman in the
industry, so she moved back to New York. There, she got her start as a
script supervisor for Elia Kazan; three of her earliest credits were
on On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, and A Face in the Crowd.She later got
into producing, was noted as one of very few female producers during
the 1960s. She'd later co-write the 1962 film Lad, a Dog, and direct
the 1977 film A Secret Space. Later, she'd work as a professor of film
at New York University. She retired in the early 1990s after being
beaten by a police officer and suffering lasting injuries.
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