The only fictional character in 'Feud' is also the most painfully real

She’s the one Feud: Bette and Joan character who’s largely fictitious – but what she represents is truthful today as it was in the 1960s.

Pauline Jameson – the capable assistant to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? director Robert Aldrich who harbors ambitions to become a screenwriter and filmmaker herself – is not to be confused with a British actress whose career was in full flourish around the same time as the series was set: they share only a name. 

But as actress Alison Wright (The Americans, Sneaky Pete) reveals to Mashable, the character — a composite of many smart, creative women working in Hollywood at the time — represents an untold number of ladies hoping to shatter its many glass ceilings. Pauline herself may not be real, but the creative struggles depicted in her story were – and in many ways still are – as genuine as it gets. Read more...

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