and how much talent is needed, but the moment he looks at her the only talent that matters is how she looks. He goes about creating her career not by developing any other talent but by parading her before various influential males, with the intention of getting to both gawk at and talk about her. There is much in this film that can be taken as a direct parody of show business and its methods, but the methods are true to life just the same. Image is more important than reality, and the image of woman that is projected is clearly sexual and kept within a narrow range of sexuality.
At the same time, the woman herself is depicted as having a different agenda and a different view of herself. She does not take the image seriously, even to the point of assuring Tom Ewell that she is not beautiful and that for proof he should see her in the morning before she puts on makeup. The sexpot image is not contrasted in the film with a view of women as
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