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Alice 'Lavender' Lee, 'The Pictures Girl': A 'Star Search' Competition of the Late 1910s

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Andrew ShailORCiD

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Abstract

This article examines the ‘The Pictures Girl’ star search competition, run by the film fan magazine Pictures and Picturegoer from late 1918 to early 1919. It charts the stages of the competition, demonstrates the gap between the promised prize and the actual outcome for the winner, one Alice ‘Lavender’ Lee, and shows what motives underpinned talent competitions and continue to underpin them now. It also cuts through a body of myth that emerged around Alice Lee in her later life, and shows how and why this body of myth emerged.

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Author(s): Shail A, Rackham-Mann M-C

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Year: 2024

Volume: 44

Issue: 1

Pages: 22-51

Print publication date: 01/01/2024

Online publication date: 20/09/2023

Acceptance date: 13/03/2023

Date deposited: 17/04/2023

ISSN (print): 0143-9685

ISSN (electronic): 1465-3451

Publisher: Routledge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2256092

DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2256092

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/q7am-0g78

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