script girl
Americannoun
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
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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
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At 16, Giroud became a film script girl, at 21 France's first female assistant director.
From Time Magazine Archive
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