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Article: WHEN ACTRESSES WERE LEADING LADIES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 5, 1989
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Perhaps many of today's actresses would object to the term
"leading lady."
The connotation is as old as the air-brushed glamour photos
from the fashion magazines of the '30s -- the pictures where the
perfect lighting still illuminates their sculpted features and
glistening eyes. Eternally enshrined in black and white mystery are
Pickford, Gish, Lombard, Loy, Garbo, Dietrich, Davis, Hepburn,
Crawford, Stanwyck and Swanson -- women whose images are as firmly
rooted in American culture as Mt. Rushmore.
"What more could you want?," asks director Richard Brooks,
whom Bette Davis lists as one of her favorite directors. "With some
of these women, all you had to do was turn the camera on. ...