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17. Chrissy Weathersby Ball’s grandmother wrote a book at age ninety-four titled Every Child Can Learn.
18. Donna Evans also coordinated A Single Rose. She won two World Stunt Awards in 2001 on Charlie’s Angels; she was nominated for The Punisher in 2005 and for the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a stunt ensemble for Iron Man in 2009 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in 2010. Her recent stunt credits include Haywire, The Avengers, Iron Man 2, Sleeper Cell, In the Valley of Elah, Bird in the Air, and The Artist.
19. Debbie Evans is married to Lane Leavitt, a U.S. motorcycle champion who invents, designs, and builds stunt equipment. He has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for technical achievement for his Airramp, Leavitator, and High Speed Descender. Debbie stunt-coordinated Distortions, Beauty and the Beast, Private Debts, and Danika.
20. Karen Lustgarten, “Reel Endangered Species: Stuntwomen Speak Up,” Reel News 3, no. 2 (April 1993): 3. Linda Fetters-Howard (Peacemaker, Another 48 Hours) has been a stuntwoman since the 1980s; she is a precision driver and also does high falls, fights, and burns. She was president of the Stuntwomen’s Association in 1994–1996. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she is married to Emmy- and Tony-winning actor Ken Howard.
21. Author interview with Jeannie Epper. Epper stunt-coordinated Extremities, Before Women Had Wings, Amy & Isabelle, Hairless (with Mary Albee), November, and American Son.
22. Dr. Martha M. Lauzen, “Boxed In: Employment of Behind-the-Scenes and On-Screen Women in 2013–2014 Prime-Time Television” (2014). Lauzen is executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University. The report also included comparative percentages of female characters in network TV programs.
23. M. James Arnett stunt-coordinated Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
24. Christine Anne Baur’s coordinating credits include Unholy Matrimony, The Comeback, Not Quite Human 2, Fathers and Daughters, Little Man Tate, and the Perry Mason movie of the week. Glory Fioramonti coordinated The Client, The Craft, Til There Was You, Hush, Anywhere but Here, Earthly Possessions, Bam Bam and Celeste, and Kalamazoo. Donna Garrett stunt-coordinated Streets of L.A., Private Benjamin, Women in Prison, Invisible Women, and episodes of Cagney & Lacey. Marian Green’s many credits include stunt-coordinating Crackerjack, Savannah, Killing Uncle Roman, Breaking at the Edge, The 7th Lie, and The Learning Curve. Donna Keegan regularly doubled Jamie Lee Curtis and stunt-coordinated The Jimmy Show, Twin Peaks, L.A. Heat, Virus, Stat, and others.
25. Eddie L. Watkins was stunt coordinator for Friends with Benefits, For Colored Girls, and Family Matters; he was second-unit director for Scary Movie 2, Thicker than Water, First Sunday, and Gang Tapes.
26. LaFaye Baker assisted or stunt-coordinated Man in 318; My Wife and Kids; Sister, Sister; Thicker than Water; Guess Who; The Janky Promoters; First Sunday; and the TV series EVE. She coproduced Kujo, My Love, and On Sundays and produced the documentary Hollywood at Its Best II, profiling African American stuntwomen and featuring Kelsee King-Devoreaux, Sharon Schaffer, Kym Washington, and April Weeden-Washington. Baker cofounded the stunt production group Stone Cold Action. LaFaye Baker and Jadie David were recognized by the African American Film Market for their pioneering accomplishments, including establishing Diamond in the Raw. They will be inducted, along with the Black Stuntmen’s Association, into the Smithsonian African American Museum in 2015.
27. Stuntwoman Kym Washington won the Special Achievement Award in 2011.
28. Mary Albee, “Reality Check Revisited,” Inside Stunts, Spring 2008. This is a valuable article about the lives and work of stunt performers.
17. Controversy and Progress for Stuntwomen
1. Stuntwomen on Planet of the Apes (2001) included Joni Avery, Cheryl Bermeo, Simone Boisseree, Eliza Coleman, Shauna Duggins, Deborah Habberstad, Christie Hayes, Leigh Hennessy, Alisa Hensley, Lisa Hoyle, Sonia Izzolena, Dorenda Moore, Carol Neilson, Gloria O’Brien, Pamela Rittelmeyer, Shirley Smrz, and Darlene Ava Williams.
2. Simone Boisseree’s credits include The Singing Detective and Poodle Springs. Eliza Coleman’s include Men in Black III, Hugo, True Grit, and Inception. Gloria O’Brien worked on Spider-Man 3, New York Minute, and Death Row. Eileen Weisinger’s credits include Charlie’s Angels, Analyze That, Iron Man 2, Anger Management, and the TV series, ER, Oz, and Great Performances. Darlene Ava Williams, a founding member of V10 Women Stunt Professionals, has worked on Timecop, V.I.P., and Desperate Housewives.
3. Charles Croughwell was stunt coordinator for Life of Pi, Flight, and Knight and Day; he was second-unit director for Aeon Flux and the TV series The Pacific. Sonny Tipton was assistant coordinator on Planet of the Apes. The first Planet of the Apes (1968) employed no stuntwomen.
4. Sandy Kincaid became national director of SAG’s Stunt, Safety, and Music Committee in 2002 and SAG-AFTRA’s national director of commercials, corporate/educational, and nonbroadcast contracts in 2013.
5. Actress Anne-Marie Johnson appeared in In the Heat of the Night, In Living Color, and Melrose Place; at SAG she was first vice president of the Hollywood Division and then first national vice president of the board of directors. Gretchen Koerner, a film and stage actress, appeared in Strong Medicine, Pit Stop, and The Tempest; she chaired SAG’s National Legislative Committee.
6. Dan Bradley stunt-coordinated The Bourne Ultimatum and was second-unit director for The Bourne Supremacy. Actress Rosemary Harris’s career began in 1952; she appeared in Studio One, Being Julia, Tom and Viv, Crossing Delancey, and Strange Interlude. Stuntwomen on Spider-Man 2 included Julie Adair, Jill Brown, Lisa Cohen, Debbie Evans, Stephanie Finochio, Jeri Habberstad, Claudette Jones, Rachel Kinsey, Dana Lupo, Jane Oshita, Ming Qiu, Darlene Roberts, Katie Rowe, and Boni Yanagisawa.
7. The Spelling-Goldberg appeal, as Grey wrote in rebuttal, hung on the issue of a state court requiring direct evidence and eliminating circumstantial evidence as “proof of evil motive. To require direct evidence of motive (i.e., a confession) before the burden shifts to the defendant would disembowel the only guardian standing between arrogance and the common citizen—the threat of a punitive damage private lawsuit.” On appeal to the Second Circuit, the jury verdict was reversed. Julie Johnson appealed to both the California Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, but her appeals were denied.
8. Leigh Hennessy stunt-coordinated Slaughter House of the Rising Sun, Mask Maker, Monsterwolf, Scream of the Banshee, and The Somnambulist. The Taurus World Stunt Awards nominated her for best specialty stunt in The Guardian (2006). After Spider-Man 2, Julie Johnson worked on I Heart Huckabees, Smokin’ Aces, and Crank.
9. Stacey Carino’s credits include The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, True Blood, The Cape, Jack the Reaper, Ghost Whisperer, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Dark Moon Rising, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Alice in Wonderland.
10. Stuntwomen on War of the Worlds were Laura Alpert, Nina Armstrong, Robin Lynn Bonaccorsi, Nicole Callender, Jennifer Caputo, Stacey Carino, Eliza Coleman, Laura Dash, Annie Ellis, Dana Dru Evenson, Lena Fennema, Stephanie Finochio, Claudette James, Karine Mauffrey, Heidi Moneymaker, Ming Qiu, Crystal Santos, Shawnna Thibodeau, and Kym Washington. Steven Spielberg directed, Vic Armstrong was second-unit director, and Joey Box assisted and stunt-coordinated the second unit.
11. Freerunning developed from parkour, which Dave Bell originated in France in the late 1990s. Parkour involves running, leaping, and climbing across, around, or over obstacles to get from point A to point B. Parkour and freerunning have been featured in the movies Casino Royale, Live Free or Die Hard, Breaking and Entering, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
12. Rachel Heller, “Queen of Freerunning, an Extreme Sport that’s Like Running but More Awesome,” October 25, 2012, LA Weekly Arts and Culture Blog.
13. Nicole Callender earned an MFA in theater from the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music. She has acted off-Broadway in Joan of Arc and Henry VI. Her stunt credits include Ind
iana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, American Gangster, Zombieland, The Dictator, Salt, Spider-Man 3, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Freedomland. Nicole was nominated for the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a stunt ensemble in 2007 and 2008. She trained with the Society of American Fight Directors and is a certified teacher.
Selected Bibliography
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Bach, Steven. Marlene Dietrich, Life and Legend. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
Baxter, John. Stunt. New York: Doubleday, 1974.
Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New York: Continuum, 1973.
Brownlow, Kevin. The Parade’s Gone By. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
———. The War, the West, and the Wilderness. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
Clift, Eleanor. Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Conley, Kevin. The Full Burn: On the Set, at the Bar, behind the Wheel, and over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.
David, Saul. The Industry: Life in the Hollywood Fast Lane. New York: Times Books, 1981.
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles. London: Verso, 1990.
Drew, William M. Speaking of Silents: The First Ladies of the Screen. New York: Vestal Press, 1997.
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Gregory, Mollie. Women Who Run the Show. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973.
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Index
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (movie, 1955)
ABC Afterschool Specials (TV show, 1996)
action movies: comedy action movies
silent films and
stunt doubles and
stunt double secrecy and
women as stunt doubles and. See also disaster movies; television
Adams, Don
Adventures of Kathlyn, The (movie serial, 1913)
African Americans: actors in movies
movie industry and
screenwriters
stuntmen
stuntmen organizing
women stunt coordinators. See also stunt coordinators
African American stuntwomen
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
television. See also David, Jadie
Aguilar, George
Aiello, Danny, III
Airplane! (movie, 1980)
Airport 1975 (movie, 1975)
Airwolf (TV show, 1980s)
Albee, Mary
fights
as stunt coordinator
Alden, Eric
Aldrich, Robert
Alexander, Elle
Alias (TV show, 2000s)
Aliens (movie, 1986)
Alliance for Stunt Performers of Color
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)
Allingham, Dan
Allred, Gloria
All the Marbles (movie, 1981)
Ally McBeal (TV show, 1997–2002)
American Society of Cinematographers
American Way
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester”
Anderson, Kenneth
Animal, The (movie, 2001)
Animal House (movie, 1978)
Anti-Gravity
Apocalypse Now (movie, 1979)
Armstrong, Vic
Astié, Odile “Bebe”
Ates, Roscoe
athleticism
acrobats
gymnastics
motorcycle stunts
stuntmen and
stuntwomen and
Auto Heroine, An (movie, 1908)
automobiles. See also car stunts
Avery, Joni
Baadassss Cinema (documentary, 2002)
Bach, Cathy
Bach, Steven
Backlinie, Susan
Back to God’s Country (movie, 1917)
Bad Boys (movie, 1995)
Bad Boys II (movie, 2003)
Baker, LaFaye
Bakewell, William
Bakke, Brenda
Ball, Lucille
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (movie, 2002)
Barrett, Rona
Barrymore, Drew
Barrymore, Ethel
Basinger, Kim
Bass, Bobby
Cannonball Run car stunt
Charlie’s Angels car stunt
Johnson lawsuit
Bassett, Angela
Bates, Kenny
Baur, Christine Anne
Baur, Frank
Baxley, Paul
Baxley Bunch
Baxter, John
Beau Geste (movie, 1926)
Beauty and the Beast (TV show, 1980s)
Belafonte, Harry
Bell, Zoe
Benjamin Button (movie, 2008)
Bernoudy, Jane
Berry, Halle
Beverly Hills Cop II (movie, 1987)
Beverly Hills Cop III (movie, 1994)
Bickers, H. Sheridan
Biograph
Bionic Woman, The (TV show, 1970s)
Birman, Matt
Blaché, Alice Guy
Black Belt Jones (movie, 1974)
blackface
Black Hole, The (movie, 1979)
blacklisting
Black Secret, The (movie, 1919)
Black Stuntmen’s Association (BSA)
Blade Runner (movie, 1982)
blaxploitation movies
Blazing Saddles (movie, 1974)
Bless the Child (movie, 2000)
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Blues Brothers, The (movie, 1980)
Blue Thunder (movie, 1983)
bodybuilding
Boggs, Tom
Bogle, Donald
Boisseree, Simone
Boss, May
stuntwomen organizing
Boyd, Bill
Bradley, Dan
Brady, Janet
Brave One, The (movie, 2007)
Bridges, Jeff
Bringing Up Baby (movie, 1938)
Brooks, Mel
Brown, Alex
Brown, Bob
Brown, Calvin
Brown, Jerry
Brown, Jill
Brown, Jophery
Brown, Winnie
Brownlow, Kenneth
Brubaker, Tony
Buck and the Preacher (movie, 1972)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show, 1997–2003)
Bujold, Genevieve
Bullitt (movie, 1968)
Bullock, Sandra
Burson, Polly
fights
horse-riding
stuntwomen organizing
Westward the Women
Butler, Samuel
Caan, James
Caesar, Sid
Cagney and Lacey (TV show, 1980s)
Callender, Nicole
cameramen
Camille (movie, 1936)
Canada
Candece, Jwaundace
Cannonball! (movie, 1976)
Cannonball Run, The (movie, 1981)
Canutt, Yakima
Capra, Frank
Caprice (movie, 1966)
Captains and Kings (TV miniseries, 1976)