Status Updates From Dark City Dames: The Women ...

I'm guessing on pages, since I'm skipping around. Reading the Evelyn Keyes section. Lovely, but can't say I'm terribly fond of her or a lot of the other Hollywood types in her orbit. Liked Jane Greer far more.

Truly cannot help but point out that these ten extras all seem to have been the less conventional more “modern” liberal counterpoints to a genre that is by and large an extension of conservative imagination

These aren’t as compelling. Cutting down the page count even further for people who frankly made less of an impact seems needless. Give them their own book if they deserve it.

You know, it’s easy to talk about Republicanism and misogyny and conservatism as they change and as they affect people, but it’s so rare that we allow ourselves the truly stark examples. We’ve come such a long way that it’s gone into shadows and games, systems set up to hide the rigging, but for some of them, for Audrey Totter, it was second nature, assumed, moral.

I like this section quite more than the first. It’s more focused more directed, you don’t feel so much the loss of what you’re missing. A good pulling back of the Hollywood veneer. Here is the principal wood. Here is the sunshine on someone who survived

Okay, let’s get depressing

It’s interesting to see the wya this book reflects the fictional and biographical upon one another. While focusing on these minor stars of the noir genre, you see their puppet strings pulled by these high powered men fueled by cash and lust, enacting revenge and holding grudges as they lord their power over these women. Life reflecting art, art reflecting life

There’s a lot here to consider about gender and time, but mostly I keep thinking about how there’s no glossary in this book and I’m going to have to go back through to remember every movie he mentions. There’s no bib either which irks me!

Can you imagine making two hundred dollars a week in 1947? Like what the fuck. A thousand dollars a week NOW would be enough to have me spreading my legs and home girl was making it just to go on auditions