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In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...
Young women have often been cast with significantly older men for years. For example, “In the 1942 classic Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman, 27, played opposite Humphrey Bogart, 16 years older than her.” [41] The FIA finds that 63.8% of women in the performance industry and 51.2% of men have a career that lasts between 11 and 15 years.
Black American actors over 50 don’t always get the recognition they deserve — even from major institutions like the Academy Awards. Still, their legacy and influence is undeniable.
Kate Winslet recently told Time magazine that it’s not brave when female actors show their bodies or don’t wear makeup on camera. It’s just their job to portray real women. The Oscar winner ...
French female actors did not want to play unglamourous or “ugly” women, so these roles were often cross-cast. One example of this is the nourrice, or “nurse” archetype—a male-acted older, humorous, post-menopausal woman whose undesirability contrasted the primary female roles played by women. [14]
Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Jennifer Aniston is feeling more body confident than ever. In an interview with Allure published on Thursday, January 2, the Friends star, 55, was asked about her ...
More than 50 years ago, Mary Badham was just ten years old when she received an Academy Award nomination -- and then she retired from acting. Not exactly your typical Hollywood story!
Anna May Wong, considered by many to be the first Chinese American movie star, [6] was acting by the age of 14 and in 1922, at age 17, she became the first Chinese-American to break Hollywood's miscegenation rule playing opposite a white romantic lead in The Toll of the Sea.