Amazing Women
who push the edge
and break the norms
DARING DIVAS
DARING DIVASHere are the women of the Ziegfeld Follies, the incredible Dancing Divas, the Flappers, and the Hollywood Divas. These are the trail blazzers.
THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
Here is the greatest stories seldom told. Prepare yourself for a flash back in time of the early 1900s. Here are the women who gave us Broadway, Hollywood and entertainment as we now know it. Their story are unique and total facinating.
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DANCING DIVAS
Dance is an art form that reflects the world and opens the door to the next. There are women who have used dance to change their wold. These are their stories..
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THE FLAPPERS
No group of women have transformed the world as much as the flappers. These are their stories. Incredible stories, to say the least.
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PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD
There was a time when women artists and film makers were free. And then the "code" came about and that freedom was gone. In fact, before the code women were 50% of directors and where a prime sources for movie scripts. We explore the women and the films of the incredible era.
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HOLLYWOOD SIRENS
Marilyn Monroe, Bridgette Bardot and a host of others. Women who were provocative and who commanded our attention while changing culture at the same time. These are the stories of women who broke conventions
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DIVAS LIVE ON STAGE
Burlesque, Vaudeville. Modern Stage. Here the womenwho defy norms of the what a woman is supposed to be. These artists of the stage have been and continue to be the shapers of culture.
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ALL THE DARING DIVAS
She was a world-class ballerina, known as the Le Domino Rouge, the Girl in the Red Mask, who, for a time, never revealed her identity. Le Domino Rouge was an international sensation, becoming a masked superhero when she saved a little girl from drowning.
MEGAN the BRUCE welcomes the New Year 1920! Er, no wait... 2020!
Here's to the great content coming year on FemmeCentric.
Thank the Sisters For Drag Shows, Live Stand-Up, Women Wearing Pants, The Mamba, and Pop Latin Music
After years of obscurity, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s and has an ever increasing and significant cult following.
She is reputed to be the first woman to earn over $40,000.00 a week in adjusted dollars in 1907. She intro black culture to white audiences!
Imagine being a 17-year-old Burlesque dancer who introduces Americans to exotic dance and then created a national scandal by refusing to take her clothes off at a high society party. This is the remarkable story of Annabelle, the first movie star in a color movie produced by Thomas Edison. The first Gibson Girl. The original Nell Brinkley Girl. And the personification of the Christy Girl. [1]
A selection of Betty Boop cartoons before and after the Hays Code took place in Hollywood.
A classic 1966 American documentary film chronicling the life and career of actress Marilyn Monroe
A look back at Marilyn Monroe and Bridgette Bardot, reigning Hollywood Love Goddesses of the 50s and 60s