All entries for Tuesday 14 December 2010
December 14, 2010
Hollywood Goddesses and my Christmas Tree
This year I decided to make some of my own Christmas decorations featuring my favourite women stars of Hollywood’s golden era. Here are my favourites…
Ingrid Bergman
From Hitchcock’s Notorious. This really is one of my favourite films, because Bergman isn’t playing the role of the pure one, but the woman with a reputation. The film really clarifies society’s disdain for women who don’t live up to society’s standards.
Louise Brooks
Various clips. I remember seeing her in Pandora’s Box as a student and being very taken with her. Again she is playing one of those women who push at the boundaries of society.
Greta Garbo
From Queen Christina.
And yet, in this deified face, something sharper than a mask is looming: a kind of voluntary and therefore human relation between the curve of the nostrils and the arch of the eyebrows; a rare, individual function relating two regions of the face. A mask is but a sum of lines; a face, on the contrary, is above all their thematic harmony. Garbo’s face represents this fragile moment when the cinema is about to draw an existential from an essential beauty, when the archtype leans towards the fascination of mortal faces, when clarity of the flesh as essence yields its place to a lyricism of Woman. -Roland Barthes
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Lena Horne
From Stormy Weather
Katy Jurado
You are a good looking boy. You have big broad shoulders, but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man, Harvey and you have a long way to go. (In High Noon)
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Kathryn Hepburn
From Bringing Up Baby
Veronica Lake
From The Glass Key
Nina Mae McKinney
Eve Marie Saint
From Hitchcock’s North by Northwest
Jean Simmons
and my absolute favourite Rita Hayworth
From Gilda
14 Dec 2010 23:20
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