While no female heroine challenges the throne occupied by men in the horror film genre, the women are not to be relegated to the dungeons of obscurity. Where would Frankenstein be without his brides, Drcula without his soul-mates, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde without Ivy and Rose and where would The Mummy be without his reincarnated princess? This beautiful pictorial compiled with the cooperation of Photofest pays tribute to the women who helped make the 1930s the Golden Age of the Horror Film.
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This review is from: Hollywood's Classic Scream Queens : 1930s (Paperback)
According to modern(feminist) film theory, the history of Women in the Horror film begins somewhere in the seventies presumably with HALLOWEEN. Books such as Haskell's FROM REVERENCE TO RAPE and Clover's MEN, WOMEN AND CHAINSAWS desparately and contemptuously dismiss anything that happened before the rise of modern feminism. Hence the significant efforts of scores of women in horror are willfully neglected lest people were to discover that "sisters" were doing it for themselves without Freidan or Steinem to "save" them. Thus it has fallen to "mere" nonacademics like Greg Mank and The Svehlas of Midnight Marquee Press to celebrate the great accomplishments of women in horror BF. (Before Feminism). CLASSIC SCREAM QUEENS does so simply and elegantly by letting pictures speak a thousand words. All the notable women of horror in the Thirties are represented in simply gorgeously mounted b & W film stills and publicity shots. The writer has never seen the pics look as fine as they do here. Plus there are many MANY shots that will be new to the horror fan. Zita Johann, Helen Chandler, Frances Drake, Valerie Hobson, Gloria Holden, Elsa Lanchester, Myrna Loy, Fay Wray and many more are covered, creating a fabulous history of women in horror in the 1930s. With little text and many photos, CLASSIC SCREAM QUEENS does more for Women in Horror than all the verbiage of the average "academic" text. An important accomplishment. Recommended for all libraries.
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To be precise about what we have here, it is a large-format paperback full of well-reproduced photos, both studio portraits and film stills, featuring the females who had the thankless jobs of screaming and looking terrified in the classic horror films of the 1930s. Apart from Fay Wray, most people would have trouble naming any of these lovely ladies, which is a shame. And some of the entries are a trifle surprising (Myrna Loy?!?). Each beauty gets a brief biography, usually a couple of paragraphs, and then on to the stills. Everyone will have his or her favorite among the girls here. Mine is Francis Drake, an incredible but unusual-looking beauty who drives Peter Lorre plausibly wild in MAD LOVE, and drives Boris Karloff plausibly homicidal in INVISIBLE RAY. The book is also fine for generating enthusiasm to view films you might not yet have seen. For instance in which film does Karloff portray (very well indeed) two identical twins, one good and one evil, and what actress portrays the impossibly lovely Thea, around whom the plot turns? Recommended, but don't expect much in the way of text.
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Elizabeth Allan (1908-1990) was a red-headed British import who made a name for herself as the heroine in MGM's Mark of the Vampire (1935), which starred Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Lionel Barrymore and would be directed by Dracula helmer Tod Browning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Gloria Stuart, Warner Bros, Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, Fay Wray, Valerie Hobson, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Helen Chandler, Mae Clarke, Marguerite Churchill, Marian Marsh, Mark of the Vampire, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, The Old Dark House, Zita Johann, Jacqueline Wells, Anita Louise, Myrna Loy, Frances Drake, Irene Ware, Bottom Right, Flash Gordon New!
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Elizabeth Allan (1908-1990) was a red-headed British import who made a name for herself as the heroine in MGM's Mark of the Vampire (1935), which starred Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Lionel Barrymore and would be directed by Dracula helmer Tod Browning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
studio caption, publicity portrait, old dark house, panther woman, scream queens, studio portrait, publicity shot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gloria Stuart, Warner Bros, Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, Fay Wray, Valerie Hobson, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Helen Chandler, Mae Clarke, Marguerite Churchill, Marian Marsh, Mark of the Vampire, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, The Old Dark House, Zita Johann, Jacqueline Wells, Anita Louise, Myrna Loy, Frances Drake, Irene Ware, Bottom Right, Flash Gordon New!
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- Women in Horror Films by Gregory William Mank on 4 pages
- Bride of Frankenstein by Gregory Mank on page 101, and page 147
- The Invisible Man (Tor Classics) by H. G. Wells in Front Matter
- After Midnight by Alisa Allan on page 14
- Rhapsody in Blue: Solo Piano (Original) by George Gershwin on page 210
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