tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28595398392695705642024-03-13T11:20:24.380-07:00Heroin(e)Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-90769154903876075892011-10-21T09:39:00.000-07:002011-10-21T09:44:23.533-07:00Lana<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VKTPHy8MxBw/TqGhVZ09_aI/AAAAAAAAAGw/LyI7nNZTYqY/s1600/IMG_1882.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 360px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VKTPHy8MxBw/TqGhVZ09_aI/AAAAAAAAAGw/LyI7nNZTYqY/s400/IMG_1882.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665987195291172258" /></a>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-10782712248512226792011-09-08T11:42:00.001-07:002011-09-08T11:44:16.811-07:00x Rosettes (continued...) x<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bq3UeN-HX5o/TmkM8psguwI/AAAAAAAAAGg/m2KAiDk2_ms/s1600/cahun%2Brosette2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bq3UeN-HX5o/TmkM8psguwI/AAAAAAAAAGg/m2KAiDk2_ms/s400/cahun%2Brosette2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650061443637230338" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aM_extSRGes/TmkM3cwmsHI/AAAAAAAAAGY/jgjCWIwnVQs/s1600/cahun%2Brosette.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aM_extSRGes/TmkM3cwmsHI/AAAAAAAAAGY/jgjCWIwnVQs/s400/cahun%2Brosette.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650061354265391218" /></a>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-74505984801206232892011-09-08T10:40:00.000-07:002011-09-08T11:11:48.203-07:00x Rosettes x<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K-fVUk2jFHU/TmkE240ZRuI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/Xa2hGL7ScsY/s1600/Claude%2BCahun.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K-fVUk2jFHU/TmkE240ZRuI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/Xa2hGL7ScsY/s400/Claude%2BCahun.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650052548524590818" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQdL1T5fcIE/Tmj_bPoSy6I/AAAAAAAAAGI/fzDId3dmcOM/s1600/IMG_1530.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQdL1T5fcIE/Tmj_bPoSy6I/AAAAAAAAAGI/fzDId3dmcOM/s400/IMG_1530.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650046576053373858" /></a>Image that I worked on, of the amazing Claude Cahun. I thought if anyone wouldn't mind me using an image of them in the quest of gender studies, feminism, painting and pleasure; it would be Claude.<br /><br />Below are the rosettes I'm using for new work, whilst tying up loose ends of old work. <div><br /></div><div>The rosettes are part of a new and exciting project.......coming soon. (Not as ominous as it sounds!) x</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-42789034980336243282011-02-12T08:25:00.000-08:002011-02-12T08:49:22.563-08:00x Lana Turner x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hollywoodyesterday.com/LanaTurner000.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 413px;" src="http://www.hollywoodyesterday.com/LanaTurner000.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Father robbed and murdered<div><br /></div><div>Her mother and her move to LA</div><div><br /></div><div>Lana was "discovered" in a Hollywood Drug Store buying a coke</div><div><br /></div><div>8 Marriages</div><div><br /></div><div>One lover, Stompanato, came on set with a gun. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sean Connery punched him and took away the gun.</div><div><br /></div><div>Stompanato was deported by Scotland Yard.</div><div><br /></div><div>Turner and Stompanato have an argument;</div><div>Her daughter, fearing her mother's life, took a kitchen knife and stabbed Stompanato; killing him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Negative Publicity Ruins Career.</div><div><br /></div><div>Has a heart attack;</div><div>Recovers.</div><div><br /></div><div>Becomes a born again-Christian.</div><div><br /></div><div>Battles a 3 year fight against throat cancer.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Majority of estate left to maid.</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-67288841456876640152011-02-09T13:46:00.000-08:002011-02-09T14:00:52.964-08:00x Carole Lombard x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.leninimports.com/carole_lombard_gallery_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 417px; height: 777px;" src="http://www.leninimports.com/carole_lombard_gallery_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Angry Father<div><br /></div><div>Parents Divorce</div><div><br /></div><div>Film Debut aged 12</div><div><br /></div><div>Not great film parts</div><div><br /></div><div>Married in 1931</div><div><br /></div><div>Divorced in 1933</div><div><br /></div><div>1934 - lots of successful films</div><div><br /></div><div>Meets the love of her life</div><div><br /></div><div>He proposes</div><div><br /></div><div>He dies</div><div><br /></div><div>1936 Academy Award Nomination "Best Actress"</div><div><br /></div><div>Held lots of "unconventional parties"</div><div><br /></div><div>Marries Clark Gable</div><div><br /></div><div>Buy a ranch and raise chickens together</div><div><br /></div><div>Attempts to have a child fail</div><div><br /></div><div>Boards a plane to California</div><div><br /></div><div>It Crashes</div><div><br /></div><div>She dies</div><div><br /></div><div>Gable devastated</div><div><br /></div><div>Joins US Armed Air Forces</div><div><br /></div><div>Attends the Launch of the Liberty ship "SS LOMBARD" named in her honour.</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-89345048446899600422011-02-07T07:54:00.000-08:002011-02-07T08:01:57.640-08:00x Gail Russell x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/37/3705/MZEAF00Z/art-print/gail-russell-c-1944.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 338px; height: 450px;" src="http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/37/3705/MZEAF00Z/art-print/gail-russell-c-1944.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Extraordinary Beauty meant Paramount Pictures employed her</div><div><br /></div><div>She was Clinically Shy</div><div><br /></div><div>Appeared in lots of popular films</div><div><br /></div><div>Marries</div><div><br /></div><div>Begins drinking to help ease her stage fright and lack of self-confidence</div><div><br /></div><div>Paramount doesn't renew her contract</div><div><br /></div><div>She divorces her husband</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1957 is photographed driving her convertible into the front of a coffee shop</div><div><br /></div><div>She appears in two more films</div><div><br /></div><div>Found Dead</div><div><br /></div><div>Due to Liver Damage and Malnutrition</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-89331832957342487662011-02-07T07:22:00.000-08:002011-02-07T07:46:30.365-08:00x Olive Thomas x (Baby Vamp)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FhkrgsyekG0/SNRryg4DLEI/AAAAAAAAAmE/C_xb90qVoZw/s400/Olive+Thomas+ghost.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FhkrgsyekG0/SNRryg4DLEI/AAAAAAAAAmE/C_xb90qVoZw/s400/Olive+Thomas+ghost.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Worked as a Sales Girl selling Gingham</div><div><br /></div><div>Married at 16</div><div><br /></div><div>Divorced at 18</div><div><br /></div><div>Enters "The Most Beautiful Girl In New York" competition</div><div><br /></div><div>Wins</div><div><br /></div><div>Becomes part of the Ziegfield Follies</div><div><br /></div><div>Takes Part in the Midnight Frolic</div><div><br /></div><div>Her Midnight Frolic costume is balloons which men pop with cigars</div><div><br /></div><div>Becomes object of affection by many rich admirers</div><div><br /></div><div>Poses Nude for Alberto Vargas</div><div><br /></div><div>Makes Film Debut</div><div><br /></div><div>Marries Jack Pickford</div><div><br /></div><div>Created the image of "Baby Vamp"</div><div><br /></div><div>First Actress to be called "Flapper"</div><div><br /></div><div>Made $3,000 a week</div><div><br /></div><div>Thomas partied hard, loved alcohol</div><div><br /></div><div>Alcoholism in her family</div><div><br /></div><div>Car crashes and fights with her husband</div><div><br /></div><div>Adopts her six year old nephew</div><div><br /></div><div>Love of her husband's life</div><div><br /></div><div>They head for Paris for a second honeymoon</div><div><br /></div><div>They have a night of partying</div><div><br /></div><div>Rumours say she took cocaine that night</div><div><br /></div><div>Accidentally ingests mercury bichloride solution (that was meant for her husband's syphilis)</div><div><br /></div><div>Screams "Oh my god!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Too late</div><div><br /></div><div>Last words <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>'Pretty weak, but I'll be all right in a little while, don't worry, darling"</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">Dies</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">Husband brings her body back to US, attempts to commit suicide</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">Thomas' ghost is said to haunt the New Amsterdam Theatre where she performed in Midnight Frolic.</span></span></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-77511066225143820992011-02-07T07:02:00.000-08:002011-02-07T07:15:00.424-08:00x Alma Rubens x (Red Roses in a Black Onyx Jar)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.eskimospitbath.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/esb-Rubens.23375958_std.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 342px; height: 492px;" src="http://www.eskimospitbath.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/esb-Rubens.23375958_std.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.eskimospitbath.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/esb-Rubens.23375958_std.jpg"></a>A chorus girl falls ill; Alma Rubens steps in and takes the role</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Franklyn Farnum persuades her to leave the troupe</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Farnum gets a part in a film, she follows him</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Marries Farnum</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Divorces Farnum after one month</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Becomes Leading Lady in films</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Very successful</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Retires from films temporarily</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Marries again</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Found it hard to get roles because of Cocaine Addiction</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In and out of mental institutions</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Her addiction consumes her</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Arrested on Narcotics Charge</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Released on Bail</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dies of Pneumonia a week later.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-57129133782671355462011-02-07T06:36:00.000-08:002011-02-07T06:58:30.669-08:00x Barbara La Marr x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Barbara_LaMarr.jpg/220px-Barbara_LaMarr.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 330px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Barbara_LaMarr.jpg/220px-Barbara_LaMarr.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Her Half-sister Violet Ake and a man try to kidnap her<div><br /></div><div>Marries at the Age of 17</div><div><br /></div><div>He dies a year after</div><div><br /></div><div>Marries again</div><div><br /></div><div>Divorces Two years later</div><div><br /></div><div>Marries again</div><div><br /></div><div>Divorces Three years later</div><div><br /></div><div>Whilst with the last husband moves to New York and writes screenplays</div><div><br /></div><div>She returns to Los Angeles and makes her film debut</div><div><br /></div><div>Acts frequently</div><div><br /></div><div>Publicised as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"</div><div><br /></div><div>Shot to Stardom</div><div><br /></div><div>Would claim to be from exotic ancestries</div><div><br /></div><div>Started enjoying fast paced Hollywood Life</div><div><br /></div><div>Only slept two hours a night</div><div><br /></div><div>Became Addicted to Heroin</div><div><br /></div><div>Dies of Turberculosis and Nephritis</div><div><br /></div><div>Buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery</div><div><br /></div><div>After her death it emerges she had an illegitimate child</div><div><br /></div><div>He is adopted</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-86700842958971531902011-02-07T04:19:00.000-08:002011-02-07T06:06:55.113-08:00x Martha Mansfield x<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O4dnVPk_UDw/TU_jx-FHVtI/AAAAAAAAAEo/W3wM6OuuKOo/s1600/marthamansfield.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 350px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570921711698138834" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O4dnVPk_UDw/TU_jx-FHVtI/AAAAAAAAAEo/W3wM6OuuKOo/s400/marthamansfield.jpg" /></a> Father Desserts Family<br /><br /><br />She becomes a Ziegfield Folly<br /><p>Successful film roles</p><p>Filming on location, she gets accidentally burnt by a match</p><p>Dies 24 hours later<br /></p>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-53563168962425870392011-02-06T05:30:00.000-08:002011-02-06T15:14:06.110-08:00x Louise Brooks x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flapperjane.com/June%202004/lulu_courtroom_scene.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1055px; height: 741px;" src="http://www.flapperjane.com/June%202004/lulu_courtroom_scene.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Sexually Abused Aged 9<div><br /></div><div>Dancer</div><div><br /></div><div>Chorus Girl</div><div><br /></div><div>Flapper Films</div><div><br /></div><div>The Bob Haircut</div><div><br /></div><div>Studio screws over, doesn't offer her a raise</div><div><br /></div><div>She leaves</div><div><br /></div><div>Gets black-listed</div><div><br /></div><div>Voice deemed not suitable for new "sound" films</div><div><br /></div><div>Leaves Films.<br /><br />Leaves Hollywood.</div><div><br /></div><div>Radio Actor</div><div><br /></div><div>Gossip Columnist</div><div><br /></div><div>Salesgirl in Saks</div><div><br /></div><div>Courtesan</div><div><br /></div><div>Heavy Drinker from the age of 14</div><div><br /></div><div>Spendthrift.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bankruptcy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Twice Divorced.</div><div><br /></div><div>No Children.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Barren Brooks"</div><div><br /></div><div>One night stand with Greta Garbo</div><div><br /></div><div>Dies of a heart attack in 1985.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-41216225987014001402011-01-31T15:16:00.001-08:002011-02-06T14:59:15.635-08:00x Dorothy Dandridge x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/dandridge.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 355px; height: 450px;" src="http://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/dandridge.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Parent's split up shortly after her birth</div><div><br /></div><div>With sister was a vaudeville acted called "The Wonder Sisters"</div><div><br /></div><div>Skipped School</div><div><br /></div><div>Great Depression ruins The Wonder Sisters</div><div><br /></div><div>Move to New York</div><div><br /></div><div>Re-name themselves "The Dandridge Sisters"</div><div><br /></div><div>Performed at The Cotton Club</div><div><br /></div><div>Got into Film Work</div><div><br /></div><div>Married Dancer and had child</div><div><br /></div><div>Child Born brain damaged</div><div><br /></div><div>Couple Divorce</div><div><br /></div><div>Starred with John Wayne</div><div><br /></div><div>Carmen Jones</div><div><br /></div><div>Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress </div><div>First African American to be nominated for Best Actress</div><div><br /></div><div>Island In The Sun</div><div><br /></div><div>No more film parts come</div><div><br /></div><div>She sings in nightclubs again</div><div><br /></div><div>Marries Jack Denison</div><div><br /></div><div>Domestic Abuse Rumours</div><div><br /></div><div>Divorces him</div><div><br /></div><div>Swindled out of money</div><div><br /></div><div>Owes taxes</div><div><br /></div><div>Sells Hollywood Home</div><div><br /></div><div>Puts Daughter in Mental Institution</div><div><br /></div><div>Dorothy Suffers Nervous Breakdown</div><div><br /></div><div>Earl Mills starts arranging her "comeback"</div><div><br /></div><div>Comeback never comes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Overdose of Antidepressant</div><div><br /></div><div>Dies aged 42.</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-65707601236717330262011-01-31T14:40:00.000-08:002011-01-31T15:13:30.136-08:00x Lupe Velez x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/76/Lupe_Velez_in_Laughing_Boy_trailer_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 239px;" src="http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/76/Lupe_Velez_in_Laughing_Boy_trailer_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/76/Lupe_Velez_in_Laughing_Boy_trailer_2.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Father ashamed of her career so she wasn't allowed to use his surname</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Moves from Mexico City home to Texas</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Moves to California</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Got parts in movies</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Accused of promoting communism</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>30 and still not a huge star</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Leaves Hollywood for Broadway</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Gets Pregnant</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Following her catholic upbringing refuses to have an abortion</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Cannot bear to give birth to the child</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Commits Suicide</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i>To Harald: May God forgive you and forgive me, too; but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's, before I bring him with shame, or killing him. Lupe.</i></span></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><i><br /></i></span></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><u>Edie Sedgwick plays Lupe in the Warhol film "Lupe"</u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span><br /></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-5963136555890250942011-01-31T14:29:00.001-08:002011-01-31T14:37:46.446-08:00x Peg Entwistle x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.seraphicpress.com/images/peg%2Bentwistle%2Bcloseup.JPEG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 403px; height: 650px;" src="http://www.seraphicpress.com/images/peg%2Bentwistle%2Bcloseup.JPEG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Mother died when young</div><div><br /></div><div>Father re-married</div><div><br /></div><div>Family emigrate to America</div><div><br /></div><div>Step Mother died</div><div><br /></div><div>Father killed by hit and run</div><div><br /></div><div>Has success on broadway</div><div><br /></div><div>Marries a man</div><div><br /></div><div>Divorces him over charges of cruelty and she claims she didn't know he was married before with a child</div><div><br /></div><div>Get's a part in a film</div><div><br /></div><div>Commits suicide by throwing herself off the "H" in the hollywood sign</div><div><br /></div><div>Film released</div><div><br /></div><div>Her grave remained unmarked until 2010</div><div><br /></div><div>Her suicide note:<span class="Apple-style-span" ><i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">I am afraid, I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E.</span></i></span></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-26212678673152846552011-01-25T10:33:00.000-08:002011-01-25T10:39:31.701-08:00x Mabel Normand x<a href="http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/images/MASTOSprofiles/0443_mj_mabel_normand.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 347px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 480px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/images/MASTOSprofiles/0443_mj_mabel_normand.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Broke up with film producer<br /><br />Made her re-evaluate her life<br /><br />Developes close friendship with a director<br /><br />He's murdered<br /><br />Her drug use becomes talked about news<br /><br />Her chauffeur, a millionaire and a golfer all become wounded by her pistol<br /><br />She's a heroin addict for most of her life<br /><br />She dies of tuberculosis aged 37.Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-10076756704728873562011-01-25T08:56:00.000-08:002011-01-25T09:15:46.449-08:00x Florence Lawrence x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.fanpix.net/images/orig/5/n/5nz8v98vzzfb89zz.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 454px; height: 616px;" src="http://i.fanpix.net/images/orig/5/n/5nz8v98vzzfb89zz.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>The "biograph Girl"</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Achieved her life-long dream of buying a massive estate and grew roses</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Had a fight with her husband</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>He left and sent her letters about how he was going to commit suicide</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>They Reunite</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>She retired from films</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Induced to work on last few films</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Stage fire breaks out on set</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Lawrence gets burnt and suffers a fall</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Blames husband for making her do that film</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>They divorce</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Never regains career</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Gets married again to someone new</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>They divorce.</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Marries someone else</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>He's abusive</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>They divorce</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Travels to Hollywood to regain career</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>MGM pay her $75 a week for bit parts</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Alone and discouraged she suffers from myelofibrosis</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Commits suicide by eating ant paste</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>Buried in an unmarked grave until 1991 when Roddy McDowall pays for a memorial marker.</u></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.fanpix.net/images/orig/5/n/5nz8v98vzzfb89zz.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-77036700288896521652011-01-25T08:03:00.000-08:002011-01-25T08:11:26.638-08:00x Vivien Leigh x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOqCkNxKoqZ5_ZC9DNa8dL_iC1uzZR4Hz_Dc96ac3NPfybHxKF&t=1"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 252px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOqCkNxKoqZ5_ZC9DNa8dL_iC1uzZR4Hz_Dc96ac3NPfybHxKF&t=1" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Bipolar</div><div><br /></div><div>Manic Depressive</div><div><br /></div><div>Numerous breakdowns</div><div><br /></div><div>Tuberculosis</div><div><br /></div><div>"<i>I'm not afraid to die.</i>" - Vivien Leigh</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-64409445817223586352011-01-25T07:49:00.000-08:002011-01-25T08:03:10.281-08:00x Tallulah Bankhead x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_94wGm5Prdv0/SjNJL1oPWfI/AAAAAAAADjM/slPHb3UQTFo/s400/Tallulah+Bankhead.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_94wGm5Prdv0/SjNJL1oPWfI/AAAAAAAADjM/slPHb3UQTFo/s400/Tallulah+Bankhead.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Mother Died when she was a baby</div><div><br /></div><div>Drug Addictions</div><div><br /></div><div>Sex issues - "I'm as pure as the driven slush"</div><div><br /></div><div>Five Hour Hysterectomy due to venereal disease - she then said to the doctor after " Don't think this has taught me a lesson!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Her last words? "Codeine.. Bourbon"</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-23278330445249437002011-01-24T02:57:00.000-08:002011-01-24T03:14:12.064-08:00x Damsel in Distress x<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/cm/harpersbazaaruk/images/32/Claudia-by-Dinos-Chapman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 405px;" src="http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/cm/harpersbazaaruk/images/32/Claudia-by-Dinos-Chapman.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>I love the cross over between art and fashion; I was totally enamoured and enthralled by the Art and Fashion exhibition at The Royal Academy. I was also enthralled by Sketch's pop-up eatery at the venue. Sandwiches wrapped like delicate french knickers with cute pastel bows, latte's in fine bone china with dainty roses on them; should food be this gorgeous at the end of a fashion focused exhibition? </div><div><br /></div><div>As I bit into my sandwich and sketched away, I looked up and saw Claudia Schiffer in a variety of prints by Jake and Dinos Chapman, playing the "Damsel in distress" on illustrated horror backgrounds. Almost swallowed by the skull of doom she still manages to get her lush red lace bra out and shows off that vintage 'do. </div><div><br /></div><div>Why am I talking about this on here?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Well, she reminds me of an old family friend Ingrid Pitt, who sadly passed away last year. The actress infamous for her roles in the hammer horror films, she was amazing. She survived a concentration camp childhood, married three times, held a black belt in Karate and a pilot's license. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of my favourite illustrations/artworks ever is the poster I have for her "Countess Dracula" film for Hammer. It hung on my wall for about four years before I moved to London, and in it she's a fiendish yellow with cherry lips. </div><div><br /></div><div>Are Damsels in distress ever really helpless? Are vixens true life vampires? The roles that cinema has projected onto women leave them confused about who to be; the cold vixen or the over emotional damsel in distress? I feel it's only now that women are finding their own feet, and they will, as long as they don't get sucked up by crappy rom coms. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>P.S. Emma Forrest's new book "Your Voice in My Head" you just have to read.</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-40234159238781526162010-12-24T16:37:00.000-08:002010-12-24T16:48:40.543-08:00x Marianne Faithfull x<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/165923/Marianne+Faithfull.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 689px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/165923/Marianne+Faithfull.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Once the girlfriend of Mick Jagger, a woman with an incredible mind and beauty; you would never think she used to be homeless, anorexic or an addict?</div><div><br /></div><div>I started this research after reading a book on Courtney Love. Even her band name Hole spoke to me. We all have holes, holes in our souls and we try desperately to fill them. With love, food, sex, drugs, whatever. The belief that these holes have been created by environment, that only when we were born were we once whole is a scary thought. </div><div><br /></div><div>But perhaps the most worrying thing at all is Fear.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fear is what stops us (even if just fleetingly) from pursuit. </div><div><br /></div><div>Looking at Marianne Faithfull, or even just listening to her songs, she sings through those holes, she breathes through them, she cries through them. </div><div><br /></div><div>And she still has those beautiful eyes that looked scared, intrigued, hurt and hopeful all at the same time.</div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-2240999193224397952010-11-23T05:27:00.000-08:002010-11-23T08:11:17.975-08:00Venus Xtravaganza<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Qzd9HIsRWeA/Sr8wK0Kwc-I/AAAAAAAAcv4/27XrJo5K008/Venus+Xtravaganza.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 196px; height: 233px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Qzd9HIsRWeA/Sr8wK0Kwc-I/AAAAAAAAcv4/27XrJo5K008/Venus+Xtravaganza.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />For a commission for a really lovely client, he told me to watch "Paris is Burning", the documentary of 1980s "Balls" in New York. Mainly for gay black guys segregated in society, but it seems the balls were open to anyone who felt lowly or misplaced in society. The balls were a celebration of individuality. Watching the film you see these absolutely spellbinding beautiful drag queens and transvestites; what shines through is their utter commitment to themselves and their gut of who they want to be. It's an intensely beautiful strength.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So how does this fit into heroin(e)?</div><div><br /></div><div>The above picture is of Venus Xtravaganza, a pre-op transsexual. My fascination in gender leads me to the belief that she is a woman. You look at the beautiful dainty bird-like way she moves, not unlike Edie Sedgwick, the camera absorbs her every nuance and loves it. You see an unusual strength in her as she tells of everything she has been through: leaving home at an incredibly dangerous young age, not eating for days, having to jump out of windows to escape enraged clients who discover she's a man (she lives off prostitution) but then you see her at the balls. She glides along the floor looking stunning, you believe (like she does) that she was born to be more than this. Gliding with an innate sense of class and composure, she belongs on catwalks and being spoilt.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Then the film cuts to her drag mama giving the details of her death. Venus was killed during the making of the documentary, found dead under a motel bed four days after she died.</div><div><br /></div><div>Death to me is a mystery that crawls into my mind heavy with fear. Its unfair, its inevitable. But you just kinda think, what would've happened if it didn't happen?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-89140183350246062512010-07-28T04:37:00.001-07:002010-11-23T05:25:13.331-08:00Black Oxen : Clara Bow<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_b9/assets/widget_dPyIooBj9kJPS-r6dFAWuq.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 402px;" src="http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_b9/assets/widget_dPyIooBj9kJPS-r6dFAWuq.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Suicidal Mother</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Winner of the Fame and Fortune Contest 1921</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Child Star</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">WAMPAS Baby Star Award 1924</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"Too fat" for parts</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Editing room floor</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Sexuality</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"It Girl"</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Films Cancelled</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Pay for your own publicity photographs</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Breakdown</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Left Movies to become a wife and mother</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Suicide Attempt</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Schizophrenia</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Death</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Life-long Undiagnosed Heart Condition</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><u><br /></u></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_b9/assets/widget_dPyIooBj9kJPS-r6dFAWuq.jpg"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#551A8B;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_b9/assets/widget_dPyIooBj9kJPS-r6dFAWuq.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" >I worked at a film fair the other week and managed to find some gorgeous photographs of Clara Bow. The story of her is unbelievable; A definite worthwhile <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Bow">read</a>. The more I think about heroines, the more it brings me back to the concept of Shakesperian Tragic Heroes, do people have to have flaws for us to fall in love with them?<br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><br /></div></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859539839269570564.post-74151509359565506772010-07-28T03:33:00.001-07:002010-07-28T03:43:43.036-07:00Tragic Female Heroes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O4dnVPk_UDw/TFAIq6WHvbI/AAAAAAAAAEM/W6O1O2PtSd8/s1600/Female+Tragic+Heroes+006.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O4dnVPk_UDw/TFAIq6WHvbI/AAAAAAAAAEM/W6O1O2PtSd8/s400/Female+Tragic+Heroes+006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498904678328942002" /></a><br />At the start of my last year at art school (I graduated earlier this month) I did a project called "Tragic Female Heroes" that mapped alternative female heroes (heroines) that had tragic ends or circumstances within their lives. <div><br /></div><div>I'm resurrecting this project and the stories of these women. As you can see from above, some are literary figures, but all are spurned with hurt or holes. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><b><i>"There's a hole that pierces my soul." (Euripides, Medea).</i></b></div>Rosemary Croninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315445408485882889noreply@blogger.com0