1. Clara Bow inIt (1927). View this image '
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This department-store salesgirl who falls in love with her boss is sexy as all get out yet principled and compassionate. She represents the sexual frankness of the 1920s along with the sentimentality that decade inherited from the Victorian past. I want her hair. And her face. And her body. And most of all her appetite for life.
2. Irene Dunne inTheodora Goes Wild (1936). Video available at:http://youtube.com/watch?v=SmjnJhotUqw.
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Stanwyck's nightclub entertainer Sugarpuss O'Shea may be a semi-criminal, but in the course of the film she begins to repent of her ties to organized crime-just as the movie industry turned away from its infatuation with gangsters in the 1940s. Sugarpuss has class, wit, and stuffed-shirt linguistics professor Gary Cooper (yum yum!). And she is an accomplished practitioner of the American vernacular of the period.
7. Ingrid Bergman inCasablanca (1942). View this image '
Video available at:http://youtube.com/watch?v=skZDG3Ffw8A.
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Some occasions call for evening gowns; others, for battle gear. Every once in a while a woman
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needs to combine the two. In the 1950s strong female stars of the 1930s often ended up playing dark characters. Never one to ignore a challenge, Bette Davis lit up the screen as slightly-overthe-hill actress Margo Channing. Margo is brittle, talented, and gloriously bitchy as she fights to defend her crown as the Queen of Broadway from ambitious young upstart Eve Harrington. In the end, Margo shows that actresses (and people in general) can learn from experience. And she knows how to spit out a line, on and off the stage.
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