Movie Producer Carolyn Pfeiffer discusses her new book

William Cooper Podcast Channel · Sep 17, 2026 · 22m

Chasing the Panther:

https://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/9780785255185/chasing-the-panther/

A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood’s first female executives—a “mini-mogul” in the words of the Wall Street Journal.

For a moment in the 1980s, Carolyn Pfeiffer was the only woman in Hollywood who could greenlight a movie. Working with directors like Sam Shepard and Wes Craven, and with actors like River Phoenix and Bette Davis, she had a…