Plate 1. Kitty in her bed (Dinner at Eight, MGM, 1933).

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Plate 2. Dinner at Eight (MGM, 1933).

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Plate 3. Dinner at Eight (MGM, 1933).

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Plate 4. Theda Bara (1917).

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Plate 5. Louise Brooks (1926).

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Plate 6. Joan Blondell as Carol and Aline McMahon as Trixie take Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert's characters for everything they have got (Gold Diggers of 1933, Warner Bros., 1933).

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Plate 7. The prostitute and the forgotten man (Gold Diggers of 1933, Warner Bros., 1933).

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Plate 8. Carol (Joan Blondell) as a prostitute (Gold Diggers of 1933, Warner Bros., 1933).

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Plate 9. Ginger Rogers as the Money (Gold Diggers of 1933, Warner Bros., 1933).

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Plate 10. The Busby Berkeley V-shot (Dames, Warner Bros., 1934).

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Plate 11. Dames in bed (Dames, Warner Bros., 1934).

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