ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΓΡΑΦΟΣ: The Sex Goddesses "Sex and The Movie Queens" by Lynne Bell The Sun Herald November 1966 Καλλονές Θεάματα Κινηματογραφικά Theda Bara Clara Bow Mary Pickford Mae West Marlene Dietriech Greta Garbo Jean Harlow Marilyn Monroe Elizabeth Taylor

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The Sex Goddesses "Sex and The Movie Queens" by Lynne Bell The Sun Herald November 1966 Καλλονές Θεάματα Κινηματογραφικά Theda Bara Clara Bow Mary Pickford Mae West Marlene Dietriech Greta Garbo Jean Harlow Marilyn Monroe Elizabeth Taylor

The Sex Goddesses

Theda Bara

Clara Bow

Mary Pickford

Mae West

Marlene Dietrich

Greta Garbo

Jean Harlow

Marilyn Monroe

Elizabeth Taylor

Sex and the Movie Queens

by Lynne Bell

The Sun Herald November 1966

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Κινηματογραφικά

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That answer was the “sex goddess”, the celluloid image of woman at her most desirable, most destructive and most powerful.

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The “Vamp”

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Theda Bara

The first screen Vamp

The first Sex Goddess

Theda Bara

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Theda Bara

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Clara Bow

At this point, English writer Elinor Glyn, was imported to impose her ideal of sex appeal on the screen and the career of her protégé, Clara Bow, the original “It” girl.

“It” – the phrase conmotated by Hollywood for madame Glyn’s description of the strong magnetism which attracts both sexes – became a trend in that slangy era and women everywhere were soon copying the mechanisms of the “It” girl – keeping their heads low and glancing up from under the eyebrows.

Clara Bow

The “It” girl

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Clara Bow

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Clara Bow

Clara Bow had lived a life off screen that aped the flapper girl’s fantasies on it; but the publicity value of wild parties, love affairs with stars like Gary Cooper, fast cars and seven red chows dyed to match her hair, turned sour.

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Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

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Mae West

Mae West

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Sex generally was then regarded as rather amusing and Mae West treated it with a ribald respect which endeared her to moviegoers but not to the earnest bands of moralists who sprang up all over the country, enthusiastic their zeal to clean up American morals, on screen and off.

Two new Sex Goddesses

Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo

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Hollywood produced two new sex goddesses:

Marlene Dietrich

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Greta Garbo

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Both women (Dietrich and Garbo) wore auras of mystery, accentuated by skillful lighting, make-up and shading on their faces, and they portrayed women with questioning backgrounds, depths of experience.

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The new sex goddess was mystery – and the world loved it.

She was a woman fiercely independent, treating sex as an instrument to make her man come to heel of spurning it completely, relying solely on her ability to aesthetically fascinate men.

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Off screen, Dietrich and Garbo continued the role of women not needing men.

[ Marlene Dietrich ]

Dietrich, though married to one mane since her German screen days, always appears in public alone, reinforcing the view of her as a rootless one, a femme fatale who travels alone.