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* Stuart Samuels, “The A ge o f Conspiracy and Conformity: Invasion o f the Body
Snatchers,” in American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image by
Stuart Samuels (Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. 1979).
^ See, for example, Stella Dallas (1937, dir. King Vidor, starring Barbara Stanwyck) and
The Devil is a Woman, (1935, dir. Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich).
^ For a discussion o f the use o f women as icons in films, see Claire Johnston, “Women’s
Cinema as Counter-Cinema,” in Taking up the Struggle (New York: N ew York
University Press, 1999), pp. 3 1 ^ 0 .
^ The details o f Maratha Canary’s life remain obscure, despite the meticulous efforts o f
several biographers to sort them out. See Duncan Aikman, Calamity Jane and the Lady
Wildcats (University o f Nebraska Press, 1927, 1954), D. Faber, Calamity J [