Goldie Hawn Film Analysis

1.0 Aim Goldie Hawn is an American comedienne that was awarded an Oscar for ‘Best Actress in a Supporting Role’ for the film, Cactus Flower (1969), and was later nominated for ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role’ for the film, Private Benjamin (1980). Her blonde hair, ‘large, expensive, slightly scary eyes, and her wide, mobile mouth’ constructed the youthful ‘Goldie-ness’ persona which embodies girlishness, giggly, fun, comical, vulnerable, naiveté, and kookiness which modernised blonde-stereotypes in Hollywood cinema (Swinnen, 2000, p.95-101). This persona was first constructed during her appearances on Rowan Martin’s television series, Laugh-In (1968-1970), but it was only popularised in 1980 motion picture — Private Benjamin (1980). Most …show more content…
In the chapter ‘Dumb Doras and Gawky’, Horowitz explores different female comedienne stereotypes, most of which possess similar characteristics with Hollywood’s blonde-stereotype, for instance, Lucille Ball’s persona — Lucy Ricardo, in I Love Lucy (1951-1957), and Marilyn Monroe’s persona as the dumb, accidentally comical blonde.

4.1.2 Aging, Performance, and Stardom: Doing Age on the Stage of Consumerist Culture edited by Aagje Swinnen and John A. Stotesbury (Goldie Hawn: An Ageless Blonde for the Baby Boomer Generation by Estrella Tinknell) This book explore ways actors employ in order to mature on-screen following their off-screen age however, this research will be based primarily, although not exclusively, on ‘Goldie Hawn: An Ageless Blonde for the Baby Boomer Generation’ which focuses on Hawn’s on-going construction of her persona — ‘Goldie-ness’, both on-screen and off-screen. This chapter examines Hawn’s roles in different Hollywood comedies, and establish patterns of her persona and the ideological implications behind her choice of film roles in respect to the structuring of her