Cari Beauchamp
Cari Beauchamp (born 1951, in Berkeley, California) is an American author, historian, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She authored the biography Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, which was subsequently made into a documentary film. She is the resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation. Career Before becoming a full-time writer in 1990, Beauchamp worked as a private investigator, a campaign manager, and served as Press Secretary to California Governor Jerry Brown. Politics and law After graduating with a BA in political science and American history from San Jose State University in 1972, she intended to go to law school, but instead spent the next 6 years as a private investigator for defense attorneys, including Barney Drefus and Charles Garry, and the Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County, serving as lead investigator on several major class action suits. Simultaneously, she became involved in the Women's Rights Movement and was elected the first President of National Women's Political Caucus of California in 1973. She also managed a variety of election campaigns throughout the 1970s including for Janet Gray Hayes, who was elected mayor of San Jose in 1976, the first woman in the country to