Professor Carolyn Macartney Talks "Wanda the Wonderful" with the Dallas Morning News

Cinema-TV Professor's Film Project Features Her Sharpshooting Grandmother

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Carolyn Macartney always wondered about her grandmother. She knew the basics: Her grandmother was a rebel, a magnetic beauty, a prostitute, a Wild West sharpshooter billed as Wanda Savage and an impulsive woman prone to anger who once shot her own husband.

Through her mostly fact, part-fiction film Wanda the Wonderful, which she is currently casting in Dallas for a summer shoot both in her native Wyoming and in North Texas, Macartney has discovered even more about this woman who was both very strong and very flawed.

"As a woman in the industry it's hard to find role models," said Macartney, a film professor at SMU. "I guess I was intrigued because she led such an incredible life, and I do think it would be great to have more entertaining films that people want to see that also give a different perspective."

Read the full article at the Dallas Morning News.