We’ve seen so many biopics on men throughout the years, now it might be nice to focus on women who deserve their own biopics to show what they’ve done to contribute to the world. The push for women to be shown the same kind of respect as men has been ongoing for many years, but as now it’s becoming even more adamant as women want their time in the sun and a chance to tell their stories. Revealing the biopics of those that have come before could provide a great amount of inspiration to that are still looking to complete their special moment.
Everyone deserves to have their story told at some point.
5. Harriett Tubman
After gaining her own freedom Tubman could have gone on and started a new life in a new home, but she chose to keep going back to the south to liberate those that remained. At one point she had a bounty of $40,000 on her head, meaning that she was a wanted a woman and would surely be hanged or worse for what she was doing. That didn’t stop her however from doing what she knew was right.
4. Amelie “Emmy” Noether
Any woman that would be lauded as being one of the smartest people alive by Albert Einstein should definitely be worthy of her own movie. But it doesn’t end there since this is a woman that had fight for every last hour of education she received and then had to fight for the opportunity to teach what she had learned to others. She lived in a time when educated women were thought to be an anomaly, not the rule, but she eventually showed those around her that she was worth every last bit of education that had been given to her.
3. Stephanie “Queenie” St. Clair
So far she has been represented in film but she’s been a supporting character, not the star. St. Clair emigrated to the US in 1912 and after a while became the kind of woman that was not to be trifle with. Her organization was powerful enough to take on Dutch Schultz and eventually make alliances that would lead to his assassination. Unlike the movies she was far more powerful than people give her credit for.
2. Olive Thomas
This might turn out to be more of a ghost story than anything but it would also help define the term flapper since Olive’s charm and sense of style was what aided her in becoming the woman she was before she passed at age 25. Even so, people have sworn that they’ve seen her ghost at the New Amsterdam Theater and have even made a habit of saying goodnight to her before leaving the theater. It’d be a great piece of fiction mixed with truth.
1. Josephine Baker
Despite being known as a performer Baker was also recruited as a spy by the French Resistance. She was highly trained and knew how to get by checkpoints and hide messages away where no one would look for them. The audience might not believe a good deal of it but a quick fact check would set them straight.
See? Women can be every bit as interesting as men when it comes to biopics.
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