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...risks were worth it from the beginning of Hollywood, as the moguls who in 1916 paid Mary Pickford an astounding $10,000 a week could attest. In the '30s and '40s, stars like Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, Garbo and Dietrich were not only paid as much as male stars but cast in strong roles. But then women stars retreated into the domestic comfort of TV, whose agenda they still set. And the guys took over the movies. The major exceptions were Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler, stars who became producers and are heroines to today's generation of actress...
...many Harvard students do not even know where on Brattle Street the theatre is, let alone seek it out to watch movies. Many do not know it is the only theatre in the Harvard Square area to show classics, reissues and art films. They eschew Barbara Stanwyck and Jimmy Stewart for Demi Moore and Jim Carrey--and most don't even know what they're missing...
...part of the new prissiness. But evil has traditionally been an equal-opportunity employer. Where would Barbara Stanwyck and the other ladies of the noir have been if their only subtext had been female victimization? Every once in a while a girl has to stop brooding over gender injustice, start thinking about sexual revenge, and slip into her thigh-highs and stiletto heels to lure a few dopes to destruction...
Based on a James Cain novel about conspiracy and murder, the film features Fred MacMurray as a scandalous insurance salesman. MacMurray sells a policy for accidental death to a naive man and plots with the man's wife (Barbra Stanwyck) to kill him and collect the money. MacMurray's boss (Edward G. Robinson), hesitant to pay the policy, stalks the couple, waiting for one fatal slip...
There was no man more determined than Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn. These actresses were both strong and womanly. They didn't surrender their grace, compassion, resilience -- if we may say so, their femininity -- when they demanded social equality with men. They were looking to live with the other sex, not wipe...