I stick by my assertion that Barbara Stanwyck and Eve Arden are the quintessential dames of classic Hollywood. In their movies they usually...
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Anita Loos: Big Dames Come in Small Packages
In my personal pantheon of dames, Anita Loos pretty much sits at the head of the table. (Albeit on a phone book or two -- the woman was,...
Audrey Totter: Good at Being Bad
Audrey Totter could handle herself. She had a “knows the ropes” vibe that made her the epitome of the silver screen dame. Though her...
Sherri Snyder: The Woman Was Barbara La Marr
Normally a movie star known the world over as the woman who is “too beautiful” is not all that relatable. But when I came across the...
Love Hollywood? Love History? Then “You Must Remember This”…
For someone like me, who’s spent most of her life obsessed with the stars, stories and minutiae of Old Hollywood, something like You Must...
Paulette Goddard Collected Jewels and Geniuses
Paulette Goddard had this whole dame thing down pat. Wrapping a genius around her little finger, becoming a major movie star, marrying a...
Jean Harlow: Blonde Patron Saint of Hollywood Dames
Sexy blondes from Marilyn to Madonna owe 1930s movie superstar Jean Harlow a huge debt. (As does Clairol.) It may be hard for contemporary...
The Secret History of Hollywood is Doing God’s Work
Just when you think the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, from behind the dark clouds drifts to Earth a radiant angel, dressed in a...
Top 10 Classic Dame Films – Part 2
Here is a continuation of my Top Ten List of Classic Dame-y Movies. This is no easy task because there are so many movies that feature dames...
Top 10 Classic Dame Movies
The world is chock full of dames, some fully-blossomed, some who remain stunted as seedlings. One of the best ways to coax a nascent dame out...
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