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Director Mogul Screen Test of Mary Linn Hughes in "Waiting at the Soda Fountain"
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Director Mogul Screen Test of Mary Linn Hughes in "Waiting at the Soda Fountain"
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Title
Director
Mogul
Screen
Test
of
Mary
Linn
Hughes
in "
Waiting
at the
Soda
Fountain
"
Date
1979
Name(s)
Mogul, Susan
Hughes, Mary Linn
Description
Not an
official
WB
event
.
Performance
at
Columbia
Coffee
Shop
at
Sunset
and
Gower
.
Mogul
masquerades
as a
stereotypical
male
film
director
auditioning
would-be
starlets
at a
soda
fountain--a
parody
of the
rags-to-riches
legend
of
Lana
Turner's
"
discovery
" at
Schwab's
drugstore
. In
over-the-top
performances
that
poke
fun
at
traditional
female
passivity
,
feminist
artists
including
Arlene
Raven
,
Cheri
Gaulke
and
Nancy
Angelo
,
enact
the
roles
of
pliant
actresses-in-waiting
who
submit
to the
whims
and
sexist
jabs
of a
dictatorial
director
.
Format
photograph
Year
1979
Keyword(s)
women's culture
performance
Repository
Otis College of Art and Design Library
Collection
Private Collection
ImageID
wb3176
Source
Sue Maberry & Cheri Gaulke
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