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New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Events for Women’s History Month Drop A Notch

03/09/2012

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March is Women’s History Month and three years ago, I had an opportunity to attend a great event hosted by then New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. It happened to fall on my birthday. From: Victoria Mayer [mailto:Victoria.Mayer@gov.state.nj.us] 
 Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 2:47 PM 
Subject: Please Join Governor Corzine for a Women’s History Month […]

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Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers

03/09/2012

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Reel Jersey Girl Film Exhibit at Fort Lee Museum highlighted the role of women filmmakers such as Pearl White, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy Blache, the first women director in cinema history, built and opened her Solax Studio in Fort Lee in 1912. The first sex symbol of the American silver screen, Theda Bara worked […]

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Reel Jersey Girls: Tribute to Theda Bara

03/08/2012

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    Fort Lee Film Commission presents Cliffhanger 2012 Series with a Tribute to Theda Bara Theda Bara, an American silent film actress, was one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema’s earliest sex symbols. A Fool There Was (1914) is the film that made Theda Bara a star, creating the […]

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