August 13 2007
Women in Film
posted by Ana Samways at 4:56 pmAs our appetite for tales of celebrity drunk driving, cocaine hoovering and flashing of undercarriages wanes, it’s refreshing to find this — a morphing montage of female film star portraits from the last 80 years. It’s all class. And very beautiful. Names listed after the jump…
This was uploaded to YouTube a few months back, but was taken down pretty swiftly — probably for some violation of copyright which has since been sorted. The accompanying video Women in Art has been viewed over 5 million times in the last three months.
Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry
August 14th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Brilliant. Old is gold ….so true.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Very cool. A fantastic momento of some wonderful actresses.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Didn’t you do this a month or two ago? Or am I losing it?
August 14th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Yes we did bearhunter, but it was taken down hours after we posted it. Only the early birds like yourself got a squiz and we figure it was worth re-posting.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Yeah, it was worth reposting.
While this is very beautiful it also makes you realise how white Hollywood was/is…
August 14th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Interesting to see that the only three ‘ethnic’ women (Angela Bassett, Salma Hayek & Halle Berry) appear in the latter part of the clip. But great that it ends with Halle Berry (although she is not a particularly black-looking black woman!) – Hollywood bring on beauty in all it’s forms
August 14th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Fair enuffski, although I am bound to repeat my earlier lamentation over the absenbce of Gina Lollobrigida and the ineffably beautiful Julie Christie…sigh.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Arghh, I am an idiot. Julie Christie is in there as befits the second most beautiful woman who ever tormented my dreams….
August 14th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Would have been nice to see some women who were a bit more curvaceous – Kathy Bates for example…
August 15th, 2007 at 12:51 am
Screengoddess:
Ummm. Rita Moreno is Puerto Rican and Dorothy Dandridge (played by Halle Berry in the movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, btw) is (or rather was) an African American.
So that makes…five. Not very many, for sure.
I think it’s a commentary on the state of the hollywood system as it was rather than how it is now.
Before Dorothy the only African American actresses to get any recognition at all were Hattie McDaniel (Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress – Gone With the Wind) and Ethel Waters (nominated for Best Supporting Actress – Pinky)
Remember that it was only the breakthrough stars like Hattie McDaniel, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr, Rita Moreno and Sidney Poitier that forced hollywood to open the doors to talented non-white actors.
Wow.
Heavy stuff.
Apologies for the tirade.
The vid is beautiful, tho!
August 16th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Julianne Moore and Diane Lane. Wow.