- Born
- Birth nameMolly Clark Haskell
- Molly Haskell was born on September 29, 1939 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. She is a writer, known for Billy Baxter Presents Diary of the Cannes Film Festival with Rex Reed (1980) and For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009). She was previously married to Andrew Sarris.
- SpouseAndrew Sarris(May 31, 1969 - June 20, 2012) (his death)
- Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1986.
- Release of her book, "Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir".
- Release of her book, "Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited".
- Release of her book, "Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men, Film and Feminists".
- Wife of fellow film critic Andrew Sarris, both who at one time or another wrote for The Village Voice.
- [interview in Publishers Weekly, 4/20/90] Writing reviews in the 1970s was so exhilarating. The women's movement was cresting, and yet women were disappearing from the screen . . . I remember arguing that women actually had it better under the studio system in the old days, when they had economic leverage and a whole apparatus for creating and sustaining stardom. Gee, I had so much to say!
- [on Mary Pickford] She was a little girl with gumption and self-reliance who could get herself out of trouble as easily as into it.
- [on her early resistance to Steven Spielberg's films] I had never been an ardent fan...He always wanted his films to 'arrive' someplace. But brooding ambiguities, unresolved longings, things left unsaid, and erotic transactions of men and women are the very things that drew me to movies in the first place. His great subjects - children, adolescents and genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror, action-adventure - were stay-away zones for me.
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