leading lady

I ask how it feels to be an in-demand leading lady.

It all percolates in the shadowy urban allure of Paul Guilhaume’s cinematography, especially as it plays across its leading ladies’ faces, turning skin into a mood palette, burnishing all the musical interludes.

French film star Anouk Aimée, who was a popular leading lady for several of Europe's most influential directors, has died aged 92.

Aimée’s career was, in a sense, attended by the ghost of the German director Max Ophuls, whose graceful camera was often trained on some of cinema’s most distinctive leading ladies.

In that film, Paige was cast as the fiery leading lady to Astaire’s producer and in one number found herself literally swinging from a chandelier.