Today's female filmmaker is a lesser-known British director who made most of her career as a script supervisor on several major movies. Let's take a look at the life and career of Zelda Barron!
Zelda was born in Manchester where she was the second youngest of six children. Her father was a Russian tailor (how very Fiddler on the Roof), but her mother was from a wealthy family so her family got by okay. She wanted to go to school, but her family wanted her to become a secretary. She wound up marrying an actor named Ron Barron while working as a secretary for a British production company.
They married in 1953 and between that connection and her secretarial work, Zelda worked her way up to become a script supervisor at Woodfall Film Productions. Her first films were If... and Isadora which featured a very topless Vanessa Redgrave.
In a decade, she became one of the leading script supervisors in the British business with films like Yentl and Valentino which starred a fine as hell Michelle Phillips in the buff. Zelda became a script doctor and gained a lot of acknowledgments for her work. She was inspired to make her own films, uniting with Simon Relph and Ann Skinner to create Under Skreba Productions.
Zelda Barron actually directed a lot of music videos, specifically for Culture Club. Remember Boy George?! She directed a video documentary for the band and the music videos for "I'll Tumble 4 Ya", "Miss Me Blind", "It's a Miracle", and "The Medal Song". She made her feature film directing debut with 1988's Forbidden Sun which was only a warmup for her best film.
In 1988 she made the film Shag which was a cute comedy starring Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda. The female-forward comedy takes place in summer 1963 when one of the four friends gets married to her boyfriend. Before the wedding, she and her three friends go to Myrtle Beach for one last girls' trip where they all plan to get rowdy - and they do!
The film was PG, so there was no nudity but Phoebe Cates stars and she looks skintastic in her bra! Bridget Fonda looks fiery hot in her polkda-dotted white bikini as she poses and shows off her slim and sexy figure. Both of these babes are so hot in this movie.
Sadly, Barron had to retire from her work after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease so she did not make any more films once the 90s hit. She took time off to enjoy her life before she died in 2006 at the age 0f 77, leaving behind a legacy as one of the best script supervisors in the business. Interestingly, her son is director Steve Barron who carries on his mother's legacy by making films like Coneheads and directing several music videos in the 80s and 90s. Like mother, like son!
Check out a sexy bikini contest in Shag here:
