Alice Guy, the woman's touch

Directors often are men. I mentioned Dorothy Arzner a few months ago. Her position in Hollywood is rather unique. Ida Lupino also directed films but she was primarily famous for her career as an actress, which is how she began anyway. Did you know that one of the first internationally successful directors of Cinema History happens to be a woman? Before the D.W. Griffith, before Cecil B. DeMille, there was a woman who, amazingly enough, started...

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Lost Hair

In my article about Leslie Caron, I briefly mentioned her An American In Paris co-star’s habit of wearing a cap to hide his bald scalp: Gene Kelly almost never appeared without a wig or a cap. But there are a few pictures out there of him going “natural”.Some other actors also lost their hair at a relatively young age. For most of them, it was a well kept secret outside of the industry. Others occasionally appeared without their toupee in public.John...

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