Carol Ann "Cari" Beauchamp was an American author, historian, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.
13 Facts About Cari Beauchamp
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Cari Beauchamp authored the biography Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, which was made into a documentary film.
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Cari Beauchamp was the resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation.
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Carol Ann Beauchamp was born on September 12,1949, in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Stockton, California.
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Cari Beauchamp managed a variety of election campaigns throughout the 1970s including for Janet Gray Hayes, who was elected mayor of San Jose in 1976, the first woman in the country to be mayor of a city of over 500,000.
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Cari Beauchamp spent several years working in Washington DC with Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug and many others on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment before returning to California in 1979 to serve as press secretary to Governor Jerry Brown.
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In 2009, Beauchamp wrote Joseph P Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years published by Knopf and Vintage Books.
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Cari Beauchamp wrote and co-produced the documentary film Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood, which premiered in 2000 on Turner Classic Movies, and for which she was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award.
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Cari Beauchamp appeared as an expert on film history in a half dozen other documentaries including Mark Cousins' production of The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
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Cari Beauchamp wrote for various magazines and newspapers, including Vanity Fair, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Cari Beauchamp was a frequent featured speaker on the subject of Women and Hollywood History, appearing throughout the United States and Europe, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Women's Museum of Art in Washington DC and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Cari Beauchamp was named the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar twice and was a resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation.
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Cari Beauchamp died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on December 14,2023, at the age of 74.