This article draws on a broad range of under-explored historical sources to document the career trajectories of the women who worked in the Italian film industry between 1930 and 1944. Challenging established histories that normalise male dominance in Italian cinema during and after Mussolini's regime, the article sheds light on women's overlooked contribution to Italy's sound film industry and explores the multilayered, shifting dimension of their precarious and gendered labour. Engaging with key questions raised by historians of Italian Fascism and by feminist research in film and media history, the article delineates intersectional barriers to film employment faced by women in the years of the dictatorship and points to their historical legacy.

本文利用广泛的未被充分探索的历史资料来记录 1930 年至 1944 年间在意大利电影业工作的女性的职业轨迹。挑战墨索里尼政权期间和之后意大利电影中男性主导地位正常化的既定历史文章揭示了女性对意大利有声电影业被忽视的贡献，并探讨了她们不稳定和性别化劳动的多层次、不断变化的维度。本文探讨了意大利法西斯主义历史学家以及电影和媒体史中的女权主义研究提出的关键问题，描述了独裁时期女性在电影就业方面面临的交叉障碍，并指出了她们的历史遗产。