One of the great docos ever made with excellent clips from films over 70 years of cinema.....and some absolutely impossible to see in the 21 st century, this is a must for all aficionados of silent and 30s female spectacle. Part of a series of film history docos like HAROLD LLOYD's WORLD OF COMEDY or MGMs BIG PARADE OF LAUGHTER this was about the women and their Hollywood gorgeousness. Very successful in 1965 upon release and never been seen much since.....the world changed a lot the next year, and more so the year after, this last stop before psychedelia and rock took over is a valentine to Paramount and Fox's female stars. Fascinating and quite revealing, literally.
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ptb-820 March 2004
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gridoon202424 July 2022This collection of clips with leading ladies from the silent era up to the mid-1960s contains lots of memorable scenes and lines (the chess match from "L'Atlantide" with Brigitte Helm is amazing; the choice of Marilyn Monroe film footage is quite unexpected), but tries to cover too much ground and does so superficially due to insufficient length (about 1 hour 20 minutes). It should have been twice as long to do justice to its subject. **1/2 out of 4.