Bethlyn Hand is a former longtime senior executive at the Motion Picture Association of America.
She joined the MPAA soon after Jack Valenti was made president of the Hollywood trade association and stayed for 37 years. One of the most powerful female executives in the movie industry during the 1990s, she rose to become senior vice president of advertising and administration at MPAA and was selected by The Hollywood Reporter as one of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Women. “She was by my side at the very beginning of my tenure at the MPAA. I got a lot of credit for what she did,” Valenti said in 2003 on the occasion of Hand’s retirement from the MPAA.
Bethlyn Hand’s cause of death: How did Bethlyn Hand die?
Bethlyn Hand died on February 14, 2023, of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 85.
She was born on January 30, 1938, she was raised in Houston, Texas before studying journalism at the University of Texas. Her brother Lloyd would go on to become Lyndon Johnson’s former Chief of Protocol. In 1966, she moved to Washington D.C., and joined the MPAA, working alongside Valenti. She moved to the MPAA’s Burbank, Los Angeles office in 1975 to head up the advertising division.
Hand is survived by her brother Lloyd and sister-in-law Anna; her three nieces; her five great-nieces and nephews; and her four great-great-nieces and nephews.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
