Mainstream Research:

Screen 33 of 52

The Dominant Women has also did have popular appeal in films. What is remarkable about the Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s is the popularity of powerful women like Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck. The powerful characters these actresses portrayed were far ahead of their time and must of presented a powerful role model for ordinary women of the time. Then it seems the Hollywood films were subjected to more rigorous censorship and these powerful woman disappeared from Hollywood films, in the 1950s and 60s and only slowly returning in more recent times.