Brie Larson Set To Play 'Victoria Woodhull' In Amazon Film On First US Woman Presidential Candidate
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Actor Brie Larson will play Victoria Woodhull,who ran for the US presidency in 1872, nearly 50 years before American women could even vote. The women's rights suffragist was also a published author, creating the radical publication 'Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly' in 1870 with her sister. The duo also started the first woman-run stock brokerage company.
Woodhull ran for president under the banner of the Equal Rights Party—formerly the People’s Party—which supported equal rights for women and women’s suffrage. The party nominated her in May 1872 in New York City for the uphill battle against incumbent Republican Ulysses S. Grant and Democrat Horace Greeley. Woodhull selected as her running mate Frederick Douglass, former escaped slave-turned-abolitionist writer and speaker, writes Politico.
The only problem with the vice-presidential nomination is that "Douglass never appeared at the party’s nominating convention, never agreed to run with Woodhull, never participated in the campaign and actually gave stump speeches for Grant."
Amazon has bought the package, with Ben Kopit writing the script for the Woodhull story. Larson also will produce with Whalerock Industries’ Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman, and Anne Woodward will executive produce, writes Hollywood Reporter.
Bee Shaffer, Daughter of Anna Wintour, Engaged To Francesco Carrozzini, Son Of Franca Sozzani
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Wedding bells are in Anna Wintour's future with the announcement of the engagement of her daughter Bee Shaffer to Francesco Carrozzini, son of late Vogue Italy editor-in-chief and dear friend of Anna Wintour -- Franca Sozzani.
The couple has been dating for an extended period of time but went public when Shaffer attended a screening of Carrozzini's documentary about his mother, "Franca: Chaos & Creation."
Shaffer works as a segment producer at Late Night with Seth Meyers, while Carrozzini is a film director and photographer who has directed music videos for Beyoncé, A$AP Rocky and Nicki Minaj and worked on advertisements with a number of fashion brands including Roberto Cavalli, Ermenegildo Zegna and Salvatore Ferragamo.
The only child of the legendary Sozzani, Carrozzini lost his mother in late December following a year-long illness. Wintour wrote a moving tribute to her dear friend, that included:
“After she became ill, I began visiting her at her home in Milan,” Wintour wrote. “Her mind and spirit were undiminished as we discussed every topic under the sun, from the fall of Matteo Renzi, to her amazing work with women in Ghana, to our children’s miraculous love affair.”
