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06-N3149 8/11/04 7:52 AM Page 65 Latitude in Mass-Produced Culture’s Capital New Women and Other Players in Hollywood, 1920 – 1941 brett l. abrams When Your Urge’s Mauve, [go to] the Café International on Sunset Boulevard. The location offered supper, drinks, and the ability to watch boy-girls who necked and sulked and little girl customers who . . . look like boys. The 1940 guidebook How to Sin in Hollywood offered tourists this description of a commercial establishment that they could see when they visited the Holly- wood area. On the opposite page, a cartoon featured two women in tuxedos above the caption “the little girl customers.” One smoked a cigar and both wore prominent lipstick. The description and cartoon presented images of women in the Los Angeles area who defied the culture’s gender and sexual norms. The description and cartoon of Café International suggested that the book’s creators and readers accepted a link between the urban area of Hollywood, cross-dressing females, and homosexual women and men. Hollywood, the town, offered nightspots and other locations where Hollywood industry figures could act upon their non-normative gender and same-sex interests. Be- tween the early 1920s and early 1940s, the Hollywood industry
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 17, 2004
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