The History Of Sex In Cinema
April, 1966
The Hollywood screen sirens of the Thirties were bolder, brassier, bitchier and, for the most part, bustier than their counterparts of the previous decade. It is true that Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson and Pola Negri, so characteristic of the flamboyant Twenties, continued on into the depressed Thirties: but their latter-day images, like those of most of the silent stars, gave off only a pale reflection of their former luminescence. The sole exception was the great Garbo, whose haunting hold on audi...
