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French Actors and the Hollywood Studio System: The Case of Ketti Gallian, 1934–1937
Ist Teil von
Film history (New York, N.Y.), 2021-03, Vol.33 (1), p.1-45
Ort / Verlag
Sydney: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Almost completely forgotten today, Ketti Gallian was a young French actress who made four films in Hollywood in the mid-1930s, playing the female lead opposite Spencer Tracy and Warner Baxter in two of them. Gallian's example is rare in that she was a virtual unknown within the film community in France when she signed a Hollywood contract. Once enmeshed in the machinery of the studio system, she found ways to resist its myriad constraints but ultimately failed to realize her ambitions, a victim of studio mismanagement and, especially, linguistic insecurity, which undermined her onscreen performance and marketability—a problem also faced by some of her better-known compatriots in Hollywood.