Great Big Girl Like Me
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In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM''s most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler''s use of her body to challenge Hollywood''s standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. How...
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In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM''s most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler''s use of her body to challenge Hollywood''s standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. How...
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