SYMHC Classics: Sylvia of Hollywood
6 April - 37 minsThis 2019 episode covers Sylvia of Hollywood, famous in the 1920s and 1930s for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood's beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman.
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