Everyone assumes the baby is hers - why ever would they think that? - leaving Polly stuck with the bouncing bundle of joy. Ginger Rogers plays Polly Parrish, a young single woman who loses her job on the same day that she finds a baby left on the steps of an orphanage. Hollywood has always enjoyed tackling motherhood, but it was never done with such wit and heart as in Garson Kanin’s Bachelor Mother. Regardless, here are 10 classic film heroines that capture the tenacity, determination, beauty and grace that made their respective actresses legendary. The truth is: the Golden Age of Hollywood created a wealth of strong-willed females worthy of emulation, so many in fact, that narrowing this list down to 10 was a lesson in strength. Believing this sentiment is on par with the presumption that black and white movies themselves are bad. One of the great fallacies for those journeying into the world of classic cinema for the first time, is that the outdated mores of the era created weaker female characters. She runs the classic film site Journeys in Classic Film and hosts the Ticklish Business podcast. Lopez is a freelance pop culture essayist whose work has appeared on TCM Backlot, Film School Rejects and Paste. Warner Archive is pleased to feature a guest post from classic film writer Kristen Lopez. 10 classic movies that put the “hero” in heroine.Ĭlassic film blogger Kirsten Lopez picks her favorite female-focused classic films.

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