The narcissistic woman: reflections and projections -- Garbo talks: expectation and realization -- Katharine Hepburn and a Hollywood story -- Vanishing differences in Mildred Pierce and Leave her to heaven -- One touch of Venus: Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and the production code -- "Wherever there's magic": performance time in Sunset Boulevard and All about Eve -- Marilyn Monroe: "the last glimmering of the sacred" -- Neo-screen tests, part one: Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor -- Neo-screen tests, part two: Kidman, Lohan, and the search for Scarlett