{"id":10045,"date":"2010-04-19T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:09:35","slug":"beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-not-really-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10045","title":{"rendered":"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Not really, though."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moviemorlocks.com\/2010\/04\/14\/a-memorable-womans-face-1941\/\">A fantastic piece about <i>A Woman&#8217;s Face<\/i><\/a>, the 1941 film starring Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt and Melvyn Douglas.  This is one of Joan Crawford&#8217;s best performances, she shows something here she was rarely allowed to show: vulnerability, insecurity, sensitivity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Never slipping entirely into the simple formula equating beauty with goodness and vice versa, the story suggests that the characters have a kind of security in the way they are perceived by others, based largely on their mien.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And watch for that scene where she slaps Osa Massen.  There&#8217;s one shot of Crawford&#8217;s face during the fight which is as real as it can get.  She&#8217;s tops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8077\">Here&#8217;s my piece on <i>A Woman&#8217;s Face<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is <a href=\"http:\/\/selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/joan-bis-womans-face.html\">The Siren&#8217;s wonderful piece on this movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic piece about A Woman&#8217;s Face, the 1941 film starring Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt and Melvyn Douglas. This is one of Joan Crawford&#8217;s best performances, she shows something here she was rarely allowed to show: vulnerability, insecurity, sensitivity. Never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15190,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions\/15190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}