script girl

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of script girl¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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

Of her first directing experience, on "Laverne & Shirley": “By the sixth, seventh year, who wants to direct this week — the script girl, first AD, the camera coordinator, whoever. How many doors can you come through? There's one door.”

From Los Angeles Times

The film follows a familiar script: Girl meets boy, girl introduces boy to her parents, high jinks ensue.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

Her break came straight after the Paris Conservatory, when Truffaut picked her – on the second reading, he hadn't liked the first – to play the script girl Joelle in Day for Night.

From The Guardian