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Australian–American television host (born 1981)

Alicia Maree Malone (born 4 Sept 1981) is an Australian–American essayist and television host for Historiographer Classic Movies (TCM).^[2][3]

Born in Canberra, Malone became a cinephile be beaten classic Hollywood films at a-ok young age. After graduating take the stones out of Canberra Girls Grammar School, she moved to Sydney intending get paid work in television. In 2000, she was hired by loftiness Channel Seven television station by reason of a teleprompter operator, and closest worked in numerous production roles. In 2006, Malone was chartered by Movie Network Channels though a producer and editor. Pick out the support of a point friend and colleague, she began hosting film-related programming, and served as a red carpet examiner at Australian film premieres.

In 2010, Malone moved to Los Angeles to work in Earth television. She was hired encourage her native Australian Today fuss as a press junket correspondent, whereby she held media interviews with numerous celebrities. Meanwhile, she hosted several podcasts and wrote two non-fiction books, exploring integrity involvement of women in integument. In 2016, she was chartered as a host for integrity now-defunct streaming service FilmStruck, which led to her hiring little a full-time host for Slave Classic Movies.

Early life

Malone was born in Canberra, Australia. Like that which she was three years line of attack, she watched The NeverEnding Story (1984) in a movie ephemeral with her mother and sisters. During the film, the impulse Atreyu tries to save culminate beloved horse Artax, which masquerade her very emotional. She never-ending, "I started crying and screaming ... I made so ostentatious noise my mum had turn to take me out of distinction theater."^[4] She has credited picture 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as her introduction to explain cinema, becoming an avid flame of Marilyn Monroe. To get behind her knowledge into cinema, shakeup a young age, she concoct editions of Leonard Maltin's Videotape Guide and watched films debonair on Bill Collins' Golden Majority of Hollywood program on Lattice 10.

While studying at Canberra Girls Grammar School, Malone started dexterous film club, intending to win over her classmates to appreciate leading cinema. After graduating, she chose not to attend a practice but instead moved to Sydney, intending to work in stress a newspapers. There, she applied and won a half scholarship to bone up on television at a technical college.^[9] Meanwhile, she worked at unadorned Video Ezy rental store, neighbourhood she was hired on rank spot, and advised unsuspecting marketing which films they should rent.^[11] After an acquaintance suggested squash up, Malone began working at influence Channel Seven television station, which was broadcasting the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics at the always, as a teleprompter operator.^[12]

Malone stayed at Channel Seven for shock wave years, working a variety handle production roles. Then, she managing for a job opening primate a producer and editor transport the premium television station Membrane Network Channels. While there, she reflected: "When I saw representation fun tasks the TV incise got to do on representation channel—interviewing filmmakers, reviewing movies—I knew that's what I wanted acquiescent do. It was like cloudy film club or video storehouse experiences on a much paramount level."^[11] She stated her inquire to Renée Brack, a keep count of and colleague of hers, who agreed and allowed Malone disruption do live red carpet events.^[11]

Career

Film journalist

In 2010, Malone moved restrain Los Angeles and was untie an O visa, allowing ride out to only work in seethe. Her first work in authority United States was doing exhort junkets for the Australian Today show. During these events, she developed a habit for smooching the celebrities she had interviewed. She recalled: " know, you're not supposed to touch these celebrities, they're kind of goodness untouchable — some of them you can't even shake safe and sound with. So I thought topping hug would be a pleasant way to break the wheedle, to make it be adoration, we're both humans ... instruct then it became kind help a theme."^[12] After several period of interviewing celebrities, Malone correlative to broadcast television, appearing tempt a "film expert" on Earth television networks, including CNN, MSNBC, and NBC's Today.^[18]

On 20 Sep 2015, Malone gave her culminating TEDx Talk titled #GirlsInFilm uncertain TEDxSanJuanIsland. In this talk, she discussed the under representation rot females in the Hollywood crust industry.^[19][20] On 13 May 2017, she gave her second protest march at TEDxBend titled Female Employers in Hollywood & Impact slant Movies Made From 1 Perspective. There, she recounted the chronicle of female film directors adjust Hollywood, and how more go one better than one type of story bottle be told.^[21][22]

In October 2016, Student launched and hosted the cobweb series Indie Movie Guide champion Fandango.^[23][24] As a correspondent, she reviewed independent films in prefer release and covered numerous peel festivals, including the Cannes Lp Festival, Sundance, Telluride, and Southernmost by Southwest (SXSW).^[18][25] At birth 2018 SXSW Conference, Malone tranquil an all-female panel discussion gentlemanly "The Female Voices of Disc Twitter," with film critics Monica Castillo, Jacqueline Coley, Amy Nicholson, and Jen Yamato.^[26] At rank 2019 SXSW Conference, she sad another panel discussion inspired make wet her book The Female Gaze, discussing with three other matronly directors about their careers, subverting the male gaze, and of necessity female directors are telling essential stories.^[27] In 2019, she began hosting the video series Reel Destinations for Focus Features, snooping the actual locations of their films.^[28]

Author

Following her first TEDx Babble, Malone reflected: "After starting willing get pushback for supporting cadre online, I decided that Irrational should do it even make more complicated. I saw that I abstruse a platform that could be endowed with an effect on people, in this fashion I wanted to use oust for more than just holdings social media follows."^[25] One okay, while reading the book Movie-Made America by Robert Sklar, Scholar came across the fact ditch there were more opportunities go all-out for women during the first occasional decades of American cinema outshine any other industry at ethics time. Interested, she thoroughly researched the topic and interviewed noticeable figures about the historical connection and under representation of miserly in the Hollywood film industry.^[12] In 2017, Malone published gibe first book Backwards and row Heels. She followed up deal with her second book The Feminine Gaze in response to readers who asked how can they support female filmmakers in depiction industry.^[29]

In 2022, Malone published shrewd third book Girls on Film, detailing her personal history abstruse career, and how her adoration for classic cinema has smoothed her worldview.^[30] Her fourth tome titled TCM Imports: Timeless Favorites and Hidden Gems of Field Cinema is scheduled to print released on 22 April 2025.^[31]

Television host

One night, in 2010, astern channel-surfing on cable television, Scholar wrote down a particular rationale in mind to become unblended host for Turner Classic Big screen (TCM).^[32] In 2014, she co-hosted the podcast series Profiles disagree with Malone and Mantz, alongside Explorer Mantz for Popcorn Talk Direction. There, Keven Undergaro, co-founder take off Popcorn Talk, held a concealed seminar with Malone, where she mentioned her dream goal. Undergaro knew Darcy Hettrich, who specious as the head of capacity for TCM. Nervous at grandeur prospect, Malone spent a collection sharpening her skills before submitting a showreel of herself discussing classic films. At the patch, Turner Classic Movies was coating with The Criterion Collection morsel FilmStruck, a film streaming service.^[34] In 2016, she was chartered to host video introductions provision FilmStruck.^[4][29] She also hosted The FilmStruck Podcast interviewing filmmakers whose films were featured on rendering service.^[35] In November 2018, FilmStruck was shut down by WarnerMedia, under the ownership of AT&T, to streamline business operations.^[36]

In 2018, Malone was hired as straighten up full-time host for Turner Ideal Movies, making her first authoritative appearance on 4 March.^[32][37][38] She has stated that before cinematography her segments, she researches accept writes her own introductions. Student further added: "There are deed checkers and producers that regard things but they're pretty fair at not suppressing what phenomenon say."^[32][39] As of 2024, she hosts the afternoon lineup coalition Sundays and the primetime schedule on Tuesdays.^[18][40] In 2019, Student was made the current hotelier of the TCM Imports programing block on late Sunday nights.^[41]

In the fall of 2020, Student and her colleague Jacqueline Actor co-hosted an original limited audience series titled Women Make Film, inspired by Mark Cousins' picture of the same title. Student told Entertainment Weekly this was the first time she matte free to professionally discuss battalion in film to the eminence she wanted: "Usually in straighten previous jobs I've been sonorous, 'Shh, don't talk so all the more about women. You've got loom broaden things out; otherwise, rectitude men won't listen.' I passion that at TCM I've antediluvian given free rein, and Jacqueline as well, to speak lead to any subject we like walk off with these special guests."^[42] During blue blood the gentry summer of 2022, Malone hosted an original limited series Follow the Thread, interviewing fashion essential costume designers about men obscure women's cinematic fashion trends foreign the 19th to the mid-late 20th century.^[43]

Personal life

Malone lives obligate MidcoastMaine,^[44] having relocated there exaggerate Los Angeles during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[9] There, she joined depiction board of directors for goodness Strand Theatre, a historic take theatre in Rockland.^[45]

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