I don't mean to imply that nothing of a negative nature should be published about AM. She was a human being and as flawed as any of us. Just that there are ways to approach the telling about those sides of her, such as with diplomacy and tact.
I agree 100% with taking a scholarly, critical approach to the analysis of her work. Just that there are ways to do it. I consider the type of language used in the following examples to be neither scholarly nor professional, but rather unkind and even rude:
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-- Page 30: "Certainly Moorehead's French accent, which would show up again in Mrs. Parkington, is disconcertingly reminiscent of 'Allo 'Allo!"
-- Page 50: "Had Moorehead not had her acting talent and vast ambition, she might well have turned into a meddlesome, man-eating divorcee like Emily"
-- Page 83: "Our Vines also offers us the toe-curling spectacle of customarily austere Moorehead massaging liver-lipped screen husband [Edward G.] Robinson's shoulders."
-- Page 89: ". . .Moorehead, for once, is relegated to being little more than a glorified hat stand. [. . .] The hyperelegant countess makes her first entrance in a picture hat in the size and shape of a garbage can lid."
-- Page 97: "The role unified nearly all the qualities that Moorehead uniquely projected on the screen: theatricality, self-dramatization, artificiality, malevolence, sexual rapaciousness and frustration, possessiveness, jealousy, and nosiness."
-- Page 161: [Of Errol Flynn] ". . .we are quite unnecessarily treated to the sight of his sad, sagging tits as he gets a scrubdown from his black manservant.
-- Page 178: " . . .the ballerina's filthy-rich, piss-elegant, feminine yet forceful auntie. . . ."
-- Page 200: "You could feed a multigenerational clan Thanksgiving dinner on the three turkeys that Agnes Moorehead made with Susan Hayward."
-- Page 200: ". . .playing the butch blonde proprietor of a Honolulu 'private club' in the first and the patrician battle-ax in the second would have been signature roles for her in any cinematographic process."
-- Page 207: ". . .St. Oegger had given [Jane] Wyman a severe, unbecomingly short hairstyle with Claudette Colbert bangs that made her look more like a bilious Pekingese than ever."
-- Page 228: "The film starred Grace Kelly, Louis Jourdan, and Alec Guiness, who also played a queen."
-- Page 266: [In reference to a painting of AM] "With the small crowned head atop the hugely dressed body, he [Paul Gregory] thought it looked like Frankenstein."
-- Page 286: "Except for bags under her eyes, she has been served well by the lighting and makeup departments."
-- Page 291: "If you close your eyes during one of her scenes in Pollyanna, it's like hearing Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West! All that's missing in the cackle."
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There are more courteous ways to communicate your views. Do you see what I mean?
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