Precocious charms : stars performing girlhood in classical Hollywood cinema /
Studlar, Gaylyn.
Berkeley : University of California Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index.
Introduction -- Oh, "doll divine": Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedophilic gaze -- Cosseting the nation, or, how to conquer fear itself with Shirley Temple -- "The little girl with the big voice": Deanna Durbin and sonic womanliness -- Velvet's cherry: Elizabeth Taylor and virginal English girlhood -- Perilous transition: Jennifer Jones as melodrama's hysterical adolescent -- "Chi-Chi Cinderella": Audrey Hepburn as couture countermodel -- Conclusion.
Girls in motion pictures.
Teenage girls in motion pictures.
Motion pictures
Child actors