monte davis (from livejournal.com)2016-05-02 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It is interesting to see how far back [the Manic Pixie Dream Girl] character type goes…
Wikipedia spots it in film as far back as Kathryn Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938) and Claudette Colbert in The Palm Beach Story (1942)... and of course Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, almost simultaneous with Flowers, is definitive. Eleanor Savage in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise (1920) fits pretty well, too: lots of overlap with lots of flappers.
The word "Bohemian" is a hint; it might be fruitful to look for examples of her among the "Bohemians" (note: not actually from Bohemia) of the 19th Century.
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2016-05-01 10:34 am
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Wikipedia spots it in film as far back as Kathryn Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938) and Claudette Colbert in The Palm Beach Story (1942)... and of course Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, almost simultaneous with Flowers, is definitive. Eleanor Savage in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise (1920) fits pretty well, too: lots of overlap with lots of flappers.
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