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In my younger and more vulnerable years, I was pretty sure that Carol Reed was a woman (he wasn’t). Okay, so I may not have been the smartest of kids (the second or third smartest, perhaps), but I wasn’t especially familiar with uniquely British first names, and it never occurred to me that Carol Reed simply wouldn’t have been a woman. Reed made ‘The Third Man’ in 1949, and it was virtually unheard of for a British woman to helm a feature until renowned dancer Wendy Toye directed ‘All For Mary’ in 1951. I was distressed to learn of this inequality, and after years of boldly diligent research on Wikipedia, it’s my unfortunate duty to inform you that quite a few women throughout history may not have been afforded the same rights and respects as their male counterparts (I know it sounds far-fetched, but stranger things have happened).