The Period Eye

Notes on Early Modern Visual Culture

September 19, 2011
by tlarkin
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“Smart enough to play it their way”: Lady Lou as Quiescent Ariadne and Resistant Sabine

Repeating the practice of releasing films from Hollywood’s golden age only at the end of a technology’s life cycle, Universal Studios recently released Lowell Sherman’s She Done Him Wrong (Paramount, 1933) on DVD. The plot centers on Lady Lou (played … Continue reading