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By Jonathan Driskell

a long time prior to Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve, the French cinema produced a number of glamorous woman stars designed to rival their Hollywood opposite numbers. Bathed in tender gentle, mentioned adoringly in fan magazines and proven donning the most recent models, those ‘cinematic stars’ emerged against France’s conventional stage-based stardom, whereas last, during the roles they performed and the appearance they sported, a highly French phenomenon. This e-book examines how those stars motivated the narratives and glance in their motion pictures, contributed to defining the period’s new, emancipated femininity, the ‘modern woman’, and concerning the decade’s politics, fairly the anti-facist alliance of the ‘Front Populaire’ in the course of the mid-1930s. It makes a speciality of the 3 significant examples of the period’s French display stardom, Annabella, Danielle Darrieux and Michèle Morgan, whereas additionally contemplating many different key stars, akin to Arletty and Viviane Romance, in addition to male actors similar to Jean Gabin. Key missed motion pictures are thought of and real classics of French cinema re-examined, together with René Clair’s Quatorze juillet, Julien Duvivier’s los angeles Bandera and Marcel Carné’s Le Quai des Brumes.

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