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Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman by Mallory O'Meara

November 8, 2026 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr18 Bingo Wheels (train) Having lived in Los Angeles for some 50 years now, one of my favorite things is taking tours of Old Hollywood.  We aren’t talking about the studios, but Hollywood of the silent era, where everything was filmed right out in the streets.  You can still see where most of the Harold Lloyd films were made, and of course the stairs from the Laurel and Hardy short The Music Box have their own historical landmark to this day. But Helen Gibson’s tale […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: California history, cbr18 bingo wheels, Jump from galloping horse tp moving train was one of her specialities, Mallory O'Meara, Nickolodeons, Original Hollywood, Serials with incredible stunts, Unfortunate marriage to Hoot Gibson to save on hotel bills but we don't talk about that, When the powermakers in the movies were pretty much all women

elderberrywine's CBR18 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: California history, cbr18 bingo wheels, Jump from galloping horse tp moving train was one of her specialities, Mallory O'Meara, Nickolodeons, Original Hollywood, Serials with incredible stunts, Unfortunate marriage to Hoot Gibson to save on hotel bills but we don't talk about that, When the powermakers in the movies were pretty much all women ·
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