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script girl

American  

noun

  1. a female secretarial assistant to the director of a motion picture.


Etymology

Origin of script girl

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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Nina Arianda and Shirley Henderson are also first-rate playing, respectively, Laurel’s fourth wife, ex-Hollywood dancer Ida, and Hardy’s third spouse, Lucille, a former studio script girl.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2018

“The script girl had never seen a script in her life, and so on.”

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2016

The Girl Hunters was filmed at London's Elstree Studios, and the English just aren't accustomed to that sort of thing: the script girl got sick.

From Time Magazine Archive

Film Comedian Oliver Hardy, 48, plump half of Laurel & Hardy; and Virginia Lucille Jones, 26, studio script girl; he for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Married.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 16, Giroud became a film script girl, at 21 France's first female assistant director.

From Time Magazine Archive

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