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...Charlie's wife Oona since they were both 14 (and who also once married a famous oldster, Conductor Leopold Stokowski), gave a dinner party for the Chaplins in her town house and invited 66 of the Manhattanites who matter. Among them were Theatricals (like perennial Film Star Lillian Gish), Actresses (Geraldine Fitzgerald and Kitty Carlisle), Politicals (Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits), and Literary-Socials (Truman Capote and George Plimpton). Winsomely self-deprecating, perched on his chair rather than sitting in it, the guest of honor basked in so much high-powered appreciation-humming delightedly along with Showman Adolph Green...
...best. The audience thronging the school's 1,000-seat opera theater is as glittering as on any opening night at the Met. Besides students and opera buffs, it includes leading critics, top performers like Tenor Placido Domingo and Pianist Alexis Weissenberg, theatrical luminaries like Lillian Gish and Ben Gazzara, even an old nemesis, Sir Rudolf Bing...
Oscars were also given to GlendaJackson in Women in Love for best actress, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion for the best foreign film and Woodstock for the best feature documentary. Special awards were given to Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, the Beatles, Lillian Gish and Frank Sinatra...
Outside their own movies, however, even this formidable trio has had little effect; where the game really counts-producing or directing-the female ranks are thin indeed. Lillian Gish directed one film ( Remodeling Her Husband, 1921), and Ida Lupino has half a dozen films to her some-what dubious credit. In Europe, the only woman director before 1960 that springs to mind is Leni Riefenstahl, responsible for the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The situation in the last decade seems to have improved-with the emergence of Agnes Varda, Shirley Clarke, Mai Zetterling, Joan Littlewood...
...Brando for a spell-and certainly John Wayne has defined the Western more than anyone, perhaps, except Ford and Hawks. Nevertheless, most great movie genres (especially before World War II) are female genres, and are dominated in very real ways by their female stars. The classic examples are Lillian Gish and Mac Marsh, who provided the polarities from which Griffith fashioned some of his greatest films. The "screwball" Depression comedies (with Lombard, Colbert, Arthur and the rest), the great foreign sirens (Grabo, Dietrich, and Lamarr), the singing blondes from Fox (Faye, Grable, and Monroe), Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn...