Sloan De Forest
Hollywood historian and author Sloan De Forest has written three books in the Turner Classic Movies library: The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers; Dynamic Dames: Fifty Leading Ladies Who Made History; and Must-See Sci-Fi: Fifty Movies That Are Out of This World.
Her contributions as a writer/researcher include Warner Bros.: 100 Years of Storytelling by Mark Vieira; More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood by Natasha Gregson Wagner; Natalie Wood: Reflections on a Legendary Life by Manoah Bowman; and Grace Kelly: Hollywood Dream Girl by Jay Jorgensen.
Sloan has made guest appearances on Turner Classic Movies, as well as appearances on the CNN series The Movies, the documentary Julia Roberts: A Hollywood Fairytale, and the TCM mini-documentary Out of This World. She was the primary consultant on the HBO/Amblin documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.
Like Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Linda Darnell, Dorothy Malone, Debbie Reynolds, and Jayne Mansfield, Sloan made the leap from Texas to Hollywood and has never looked back.