Kate Winslet’s tough but tender small-town police detective Mare Sheehan of HBO’s acclaimed crime thriller “Mare of Easttown” is the latest in a long line of female TV detectives including S. Epatha Merkerson (“Law & Order”); Helen Mirren (“Prime Suspect”); Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer); Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Svu”) and Regina King (“Watchmen”).
Unfortunately, it took an inordinate amount of time for actresses to get a fair shake in police procedurals. Early TV crime dramas were inundated with the likes of taciturn toughies Lee Marvin (“M Squad”), Robert Taylor (“The Detectives”), Jack Webb (“Dragnet”) and Broderick Crawford (“Highway Patrol”). Way too much testosterone.
But slowly the dynamics began to change especially with the rise of the Women’s Movement. Here’s a look at five trailblazing female cop shows who paved the way.
Beverly Garland (“Decoy”)
After macho actor after macho actor as police detectives and cops,...
Unfortunately, it took an inordinate amount of time for actresses to get a fair shake in police procedurals. Early TV crime dramas were inundated with the likes of taciturn toughies Lee Marvin (“M Squad”), Robert Taylor (“The Detectives”), Jack Webb (“Dragnet”) and Broderick Crawford (“Highway Patrol”). Way too much testosterone.
But slowly the dynamics began to change especially with the rise of the Women’s Movement. Here’s a look at five trailblazing female cop shows who paved the way.
Beverly Garland (“Decoy”)
After macho actor after macho actor as police detectives and cops,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
You’re under arrest, sugah!
We all know about Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown, who preceded her, and who most recall in discussions centered on blaxploitation queens, but don’t forget about Christie Love!
The late Teresa Graves starred in this 1974 made-for-tv film titled Get Christie Love, as a detective who goes undercover to bring down a drug cartel, and does so with all the style and class common in its blaxploitation era brethren – the fashion, the sexuality, the high karate-like kicks, chops, blows, and more… all in a day’s work
Although, given that it was made for TV, Get Christie Love is much less graphic, vulgar and salacious than its godmothers, made for a relatively low budget, sanitized to meet network standards.
The movie was based on Dorothy Uhnak’s crime-thriller novel, The Ledger; however, the main character was originally written as a white, New York Police detective; but obviously,...
We all know about Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown, who preceded her, and who most recall in discussions centered on blaxploitation queens, but don’t forget about Christie Love!
The late Teresa Graves starred in this 1974 made-for-tv film titled Get Christie Love, as a detective who goes undercover to bring down a drug cartel, and does so with all the style and class common in its blaxploitation era brethren – the fashion, the sexuality, the high karate-like kicks, chops, blows, and more… all in a day’s work
Although, given that it was made for TV, Get Christie Love is much less graphic, vulgar and salacious than its godmothers, made for a relatively low budget, sanitized to meet network standards.
The movie was based on Dorothy Uhnak’s crime-thriller novel, The Ledger; however, the main character was originally written as a white, New York Police detective; but obviously,...
- 7/6/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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