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Born | Molly Clark Haskell September 29, 1939 Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
Occupation | Film critic |
Education | St. Catherine's School Sweet Briar College University of London University of Paris |
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Molly Clark Haskell (born September 29, 1939)[1] is an American film critic and author. She contributed to The Village Voice—first as a theatre critic, then as a movie reviewer—and from there moved on to New York magazine and Vogue. Her most influential book is From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (1974; revised and reissued in 1987). She co-hosted Turner Classic Movies' The Essentials with Robert Osborne in 2006 for one season.