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Paulette de Vere McDONAGH

Born: 11/6/1901

Died: 30/8/1978

Special Achievements:

1933 - One of the McDonagh Sisters - first all female run film company in Australia.
2001 - Victorian Honour Roll of Women.

Additional Information:

Using their home, the McDonagh sisters wrote, produced, and directed four films starring Isobel McDonagh. Their final film Two Minutes Silence of 1933 was the last Australian film to be directed by a woman for over 45 years.

Resources

  • Link - STUDENT FILM: THE MCDONAGH SISTERS

    Australian Film Television and Radio School

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  • Link - McDonagh, Paulette de Vere (1901 - 1978)

    The Australian Women's Register

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  • Link - McDonagh, Paulette de Vere (1901–1978)

    Australian Dictionary of Biography

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  • Video - The far paradise (1928, Australia), Paulette McDonagh

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  • Video - The Cheaters (1929) - NFSA Restores Trailer

    YouTube

    National Film and Sound Archive

  • Link - The McDonagh Sisters

    Australian Screen

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  • Link - The McDonagh Sisters

    The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

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  • Link - The McDonagh Sisters

    Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University

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