WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT STARS AND STARDOM

Selection, Organization and Editing: Marco Aurélio Lucchetti

Brigitte Bardot: There are many people who take pleasure in making loud remarks like this: “"I think she used to be better... Well, if that's what a movie star is..."”
EEdgar Morin: Stars are beings that are simultaneously human and divine, analogous in some aspects to mythological heroes or the gods of Olympus, giving rise to a cult and even a kind of religion.
Edwige Fenech: I don't like the life of a star.
Me.g. Ryan: Stardom is not part of my routine. It's not part of my life.
AAlfred Hitchcock: A truly beautiful woman starting her film career is privileged because, for a while, audiences will overlook her lack of acting ability. She can become a star overnight and learn to act later, as happened with Jean Harlow.
EEdgar MorinThe birth of a star is the most momentous event the film industry can experience. Threatened by television from 1948 onwards, Hollywood sought and found its salvation for several years not only on the big screen, but also in the release of... superstars like Marilyn Monroe.
MAryyn Monroe: It's tough to become an actress. When I was given the role I played in Men Prefer Blondes, Jane Russell played my rival: the brunette. She received two hundred thousand dollars for her work in the film, while I earned only five hundred dollars a week. Jane Russell was very kind to me throughout the filming. But the others weren't. Suffice it to say that I couldn't even get a dressing room to myself. And I insisted on having the dressing room granted to all the important actresses. That's why I told the studio executives: “Listen here! This doesn't make sense. I'm the blonde. And the movie is called Men Prefer Blondes. "I have the right to a dressing room."” However, all they did was repeat: “"Come on! Remember that you're not a star!"” And I retorted, growing more and more irritated: “I know I'm not a star! But, in any case, I'm the blonde one.”
BRigite Bardot: In the studio, I always had the same people around me. Once you reach a certain level in the hierarchy of stardom, you acquire the right to choose, for example, your makeup artist. It's all in the contract.
AAshley Judd: According to the contract, my image can be used forever and throughout the Universe. Seriously! That's a clause in the contract that makes me laugh. The studio has the right to show me even on Mars!
EEdgar Morin: The movie star is a goddess. The public makes her so. But it is the one who prepares, gets her ready, shapes her, proposes to her, and manufactures her. star system.
AlFred Hitchcock: I believe in the star system because filmmaking is a business. And, as a director, I can't afford to lose the money I've invested in my business.
EEdgar Morin: The star is not idealized solely because of her role. She is already, at least potentially, ideally, beautiful. She is not only glorified by her character, she also glorifies it.

WHO'S WHO
AAlfred Hitchcock (sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980) – English filmmaker.
AAshley Judd (pseudonym of Ashley Tyler Ciminella) – American actress.
BRigite Bardot (Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot) – French actress, model and activist.
CClaudia Cardinale (Claude Josephine Rose Cardinale), an Italian actress born in Tunisia.
EEdgar Morin (pseudonym of Edgar Nahoum) – French anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
Edwige Fenech – actress and film producer born in Algeria and naturalized Italian.

Marilyn Monroe (pseudonym of Norma Jean Baker, 1926-1962) – American model and actress.
Me.g. Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra) – American actress.
NRoberto Viana – Portuguese film critic.

Marco Aurélio Lucchetti is a university professor and film researcher.,
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