The History Of Sex In Cinema
September, 1965
Part Five: Sex Stars of the TwentiesFor the better part of the decade that began in 1920, the love goddesses of the silent screen were, of necessity, forced to express their more passionate emotions with brooding, heavy-lidded stares, heaving bosoms and anguished clutchings of the throat--their own and others'. It may seem hard to believe now, but our parents and grandparents responded with avidity to the dialogless eroticism of the screen. As Gloria Swanson put it, playing the somewhat autobiog...
