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Make Me Over | Vanessa Williams, Whitney Houston and Hollywood’s Misogynoir Problem
Mar 10, 2020In 1983, Vanessa Williams became the first black woman to win Miss America. In 1984, a few weeks from the end of her reign, she was forced to step down when she found out Penthouse was going to publis...
Six Degrees of Song of the South | Disney’s Most Controversial Film
Oct 22, 2019Disney Plus is launching with the stated intention of streaming the entire Disney library... except for "Song of the South," a 1946 animation/live-action hybrid film set on a post-Civil War plantation...
Six Degrees of Song of the South | Hattie McDaniel
Oct 29, 2019Song of the South co-stars Hattie McDaniel, the first black performer to win an Oscar (for her supporting role as “Mammy” in Gone with the Wind). By the time Song of the South was released, McDaniel w...
Six Degrees of Song of the South | “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” Minstrels in Hollywood and The Oscars
Nov 05, 2019Song of the South’s most famous element is “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” a song written for the movie but reminiscent of a racist standard popularized in blackface minstrel shows of the 1830s. Today we’ll expl...
Six Degrees of Song of the South | White Allies and the Blacklist: Maurice Rapf
Nov 12, 2019Concerned that his movie about a former slave devoting his life to a white child’s emotional needs might be perceived as racist, Walt Disney hired known Communist Maurice Rapf to rewrite Song of the S...
Six Degrees of Song of the South | Blaxploitation and the White Backlash
Nov 19, 2019Song of the South’s most successful re-release came in 1972 at a time when Hollywood was dealing with race by making two very different kinds of movies: Blaxploitation films, which gave black audience...
Six Degrees of Song of the South | Splash Mountain
Nov 26, 2019After two more successful theatrical releases, in 1980 and 1986, Disney decided to put Song of the South in the “Disney Vault” and never released it on home video or theatrically in the US ever again....
The Seduced | Rupert Hughes's Women
Oct 16, 2018In the new book Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, Karina Longworth explores the lives and careers of over a dozen actresses who were involved, professionally and/or person...
The Seduced | The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas
Oct 23, 2018Seduction begins at an MGM sponsored orgy at the Ambassador Hotel, as told through the eyes of one of the attendees, a young female screenwriter named Frederica Sagor. Sagor would go on to pen one of ...
The Seduced | Ann Dvorak
Oct 30, 2018The child of a silent film actress, Dvorak was so determined to be a star that at first, she wouldn’t take no for an answer. Her big break came when she was cast in Howard Hughes’s production of Scarf...