FEW FEMALE STARS of the fifties have joined the legendary immortals of the American cinema. There were many beauties then and some great magnetic stars like Doris Day. Yet only the mysterious extrovert, Marilyn Monroe, and the mysterious introvert, Grace Kelly, shone with a brighter light. Like Monroe, Grace Kelly captured the imagination of future generations. There is public and media fascination with Princess Grace and everything that touched her. There have been rumours of a cult adoration in Monaco which has sought to have her enrolled in the first declension toward sainthood. The tabloid rags have it that she did not die but was so badly shattered in her fatal accident that her family had her put away in a secret place. But, because s...
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THE great motion pictures of the silent era unseen by generations which have known only "talking pic...
Sunset Boulevard (1950), a product of the Billy Wilder / Charles Brackett writing team that also pro...
Stardom is an important mechanism through which both national identity and gender norms are articula...
This article investigates the phenomenon of the ‘natural blonde’ as an ideal of feminine beauty, loo...
Early television reveals the radical nature of the new medium as well as many of its affordances tha...
Once hailed by acclaimed director D. W. Griffith as “the greatest natural actress now in pictures,” ...
Marilyn Monroe and Lady Diana Spencer were unique women because they emphasized women’s roles beside...
Jeanette MacDonald, the movie musical's first superstar, was an American original whose onscreen rad...
When Ruth Harriet Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with "more stars than there are in h...
International audienceScholarly work about Marilyn Monroe is not easy: it is difficult to be faced w...
Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and 60s. Even now, many years after her final film and y...
Over a period of more than 50 years, Doris Day was a prominent figure of the American cultural stage...
Emma T. Kelly (1918-2001) was a native of Statesboro, Georgia and was made internationally famous as...
Film personality, 'Marilyn Monroe', is still, eighteen years after her death, remarkably well rememb...
While the Grande Dame Guignol films of the early 1960s served in their time to capitalize on the rep...
THE great motion pictures of the silent era unseen by generations which have known only "talking pic...
Sunset Boulevard (1950), a product of the Billy Wilder / Charles Brackett writing team that also pro...
Stardom is an important mechanism through which both national identity and gender norms are articula...