Carrie Beauchamp, Hollywood historian and author, has died at the age of 74

Carrie Beauchamp, a widely respected Hollywood historian and author who has been a frequent attendee on Turner Classic Movies and a contributor to diverse, He died. She was 74 years old.

Beauchamp was a prolific writer who often focused on stories of female leaders in the entertainment industry. Books she has written or co-written over the years include Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and Powerful Women in Early Hollywood and Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival. She also edited and annotated Rediscovering Anita Loos: Film Wizards and Fiction by the Maker of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Other books include “The Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s” and “Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years.”

Born in Berkeley, California, Beauchamp worked as a private investigator, campaign manager and press secretary for California Governor Jerry Brown before becoming a full-time writer in 1990, according to her author biography. Beauchamp’s latest contribution to diverse The story of 2019 was the 100th anniversary of United Artists. It was a subject she knew well, and it shows in her work.

Annie Thompson, an IndieWire columnist and longtime friend of the author, noted that Beauchamp’s real passion was her work about the early years of the film world and the Gilded Age era of the 1930s and 1940s.

Her heart was in the classics. She worked for years as a resident scholar at the Mary Pickford Foundation. “She was a friend of many Hollywood veterans,” Thompson wrote in a tribute published Friday. “She was writing a book about Gloria Swanson. And every spring she looked forward to moderating countless panels at the TCM Film Festival. These were her people.”

In fact, Beauchamp has been in the spotlight each year as a prominent facilitator and host of events associated with the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, which will celebrate its 15th edition in 2024. As a writer and screen producer, Beauchamp wrote the Emmy-nominated documentary. “The day my God died.” She received a Writers Guild Award nomination for Television Writing for the TCM documentary Without Lying Down: Women’s Power in Early Hollywood.

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Beauchamp has been a featured commentator on numerous Hollywood historical documentaries over the years, including TCM’s 2010 seven-part series “Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood” and “The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” It is a 2011 UK wide-ranging documentary series from director Mark Cousins. Her work has also been published in magazines and newspapers such as Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.

Beauchamp has twice been named a Film Scholar-in-Residence at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Mary Pickford Foundation.

Turner Classic Movies paid tribute to Beauchamp Friday across social media. “Without her invaluable work, many female creators would have been lost to history. We are grateful for her many contributions to our network over the years,” TCM said via X.

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