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Women of Early Hollywood Gradually Getting Their Due

The actresses discussed here share a certain dignity and, as Margaret Dumont’s biographers put it, ‘a memorable vulnerability and eternally renewable faith in the chance of sanity in a lunatic world.’

Marion Davies in a lost 1919 silent film, ‘The Dark Star.’
Marion Davies in a lost 1919 silent film, ‘The Dark Star.’ J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs via Wikimedia Commons

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