I’m pretty sure it’s not just Hollywood, I’ve seen old drawings and paintings of people in battle or duels and they always only use one hand to aim and fire pistols, even after multishot revolvers and pistols are developed.
Why? It’s not like using two hands only became more supportive and stable after 1910.
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Revolvers emit fire from between the cylinders. Fire hurts pretty bad. This makes it very difficult to use a revolver 2 handed. Most of the late 1800s weapons were still getting over the use of revolvers. Meaning that the 2 handed grip didn’t develop for things like the c96 because it wasn’t as common.
Also the one handed “dueling” stance you see, is inherently more accurate which is why you see it used by Olympic athletes.
Another big thing is that the 2 handed grip is the best for FAST repeating shots. Revolvers required a reset, meaning your hands would need to change positions. Shoot, cock, shoot, cock, shoot.
Modern pistols like a glock don’t use this, they are repeating. The second hand in modern shooting techniques like the proctor or weaver method are used to control recoil. You don’t care about recoil on a non repeating weapon. It happens after the bullet leaves the gun and therefor has no effect on accuracy.
When modern repeating handguns became common place with the Luger, and the 1911, the 2 hand method became actually practical
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