Lucille Ball, the Queen of Show Business versus Lucy Ricardo, the Failed Actress by Aurélie Blot

“…This might be because Lucille Ball refused to be considered as a businesswoman; she wanted to be seen as an actress above all. In this article, I will analyze how Lucille Ball became a businesswoman in spite of herself and how her success as an actress contributed to her success as a businesswoman.…”
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How to Undo Things and Selves with Words: Understanding Literature as Praxis in Virginia Woolf’s Essays on Actresses by Caroline Marie

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Gösteri Dünyasında Kadın Oyunculara Yönelik Cinsiyetçi Yaklaşım ve Bir Örnek Olay: Fat Actress by N.Aysun Yüksel

“…Bu noktadan hareketle,  anılan ayrımcılığa ilişkin Kirstie Alley'in ironik bir yaklaşıma sahip, otobiyografik özellikler de taşıyan yedi bölümlük dizisi Fat Actress ele alınmakta ve feminist bir bakış açısıyla değerlendirilmektedir. …”
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‘Wisdom is a gift given to the Wise’: Florence Farr (1860–1917): New Woman, Actress and Pagan Priestess by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…To Yeats, Florence Farr was less an actress and a composer than a priestess and a bard. …”
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

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Mask-wearing affects infants' selective attention to familiar and unfamiliar audiovisual speech by Lauren N. Slivka, Kenna R. H. Clayton, Greg D. Reynolds

“…Six-month-old and 12-month-old infants (n = 42, 55% female, 91% White Non-Hispanic/Latino) were shown videos of an actress speaking in a familiar language (English) with and without a mask on, as well as videos of the same actress speaking in an unfamiliar language (German) with and without a mask. …”
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Le Paradoxe de la comédienne : Peg Woffington selon Charles Reade by Laurent Bury

“…At the climactic point of the plot, the actress, a professional deceiver, pretends to be a painted portrait. …”
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POWER OF WOMAN: GLENN CLOSE’S HEROINES AS THE EMBODIMENT OF STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS IN CINEMA (SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS) by Anna A. Podolskaya

“…The article is devoted to the sociological analysis of films featuring Hollywood actress Glenn Close. The purpose of the research is to analyze in what image the heroines appear, how their characters relate to the time of action in films. …”
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Sônia Braga : la beauté latine de la « vraie femme brésilienne » des années de la dictature by Alberto Da silva

“…Over this period, the actress Sônia Braga built up an international career, drawing both on media influence and on her mediatised image as "Latin beauty" and "true Brazilian woman", becoming the sex symbol of the dictatorship years. …”
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History, Art and Shame in von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others by Hans Löfgren

“…The stern Stasi officer in charge of the surveillance of a playwright and his actress partner comes to play the part of a selfless savior, while the victimized actress becomes a betrayer. …”
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L’accent préfère-t-il le sens ? Les noms féminins en -ess en anglais britannique contemporain by Jérémy Castanier

“…Within a dynamic synchronic approach using in particular all 18 editions of the English Pronouncing Dictionary, this study examines the emergence since the mid-20th century of final stress in British English (but not in American English) on feminine nouns in -ess (authoress, shepherdess, actress, manageress, etc.), whereas this ending used to be perfectly stress-neutral. …”
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Interwencja bogini/Szatana? "Wenus w futrze" (2013) – lektura palimpsestowa filmu Romana Polańskiego by Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk

“…The text concerns Roman Polanski’s film Venus in Fur (2013), a multi-layer psychodrama written for two characters, taking place on several levels of human relations: actress vs. director, literary character vs. performing artist, man vs. woman. …”
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Andrzej Wajda’s Sweet Rush as an Extended Film Adaptation by Viren Denis G.

“…Wajda constructs a three-level narrative, filming the original plot, showing the filming process and, finally, giving the floor to the leading actress Krystyna Janda: in monologues filmed in an empty room that gives a reference to the paintings of Edward Hopper, the actress talks about the death of her husband Edward Kłosiński, the famous cameraman and long-time collaborator of Wajda. …”
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«KIKI’S MEMOIRS»: PARIS IN THE 1920-S SEEN BY THE MODEL by Olga Nikolayevna Zaharchenko

“…The analysis is based on the memories of a French artists’ model, actress and painter Alice Ernestine Pren known as Kiki de Montparnasse…”
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Functions of the 'theatrical' plot in M.A. Bulgakov's fantastic vaudeville 'Ivan Vasil'evich' by M.A. Shelenok

“…The traditional plot about the actress is subordinate in the storyline of the play “Ivan Vasil'evich” and develops as a parody. …”
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Les études féministes au Mirail : quoi de neuf entre 1978 et 2008 ? by Jacqueline Martin 

“…Feminist studies at the University of Toulouse 2, as in other universities, have been deployed since the mid-1970s with the aim of visibility, integration and institutional recognition. As an actress and witness of this deployment from its inception, I present in this article five specific features or innovations in the organization and choices made by the professors of our university between 1978 and 2008.…”
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Taming the Sculptress: Roman Beauty and Marble Love in Alcott’s Art Tales by Daniela Daniele

“…Being victimized by a Puritan ideal of beauty that no living body could equal, Alcott’s feminized versions of The Marble Faun allude to the American colony of women sculptors led by the actress Charlotte Cushman, whose extraordinary accomplishments in the arts challenged the patriarchal demands of the male gaze.…”
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Le théâtre du Grand-Guignol et l’esthétique du féminicide by Rimpei Mano

“…The theatre's favourite actress, Maxa, "the most murdered woman in the world", herself embodies the aesthetics of feminicide, of which Pierre Chaine's Le Jardin des Supplices offers one of the best results. …”
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HBO’s Black Women Artist Biopics: The Josephine Baker Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge by Hélène Charlery

“…This paper analyses cable television HBO’s 1990s biopics based on the life stories of the African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker (The Josephine Baker Story, Brian Gibson, 1991) and the actress Dorothy Dandridge (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Martha Coolidge, 1999), demonstrating that the films articulate the network’s commercial strategy, using the life stories of African American icons to tap into a niche market. …”
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O „warjatunci JMT” i Modrzejewskiej by Agnieszka Kowalska

“… The content of the article are the memoirs and correspondence of the actress and traveller Jadwiga Mrozowska-Toeplitz, in which she described her reflections on the fellow artist Helena Modrzejewska. …”
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