Everyone loves a party girl — until they don't.
essay “The Bimbo’s Laugh,”
Every party, of course, needs a party girl: Enter Nellie LaRoy who pulls the age-old trick of showing up and pretending her name is on the list so she can get into the exclusive Hollywood soirée. Instead, she’s let in by Manny, an errand boy for the party host, and the two snort coke and talk about their big dreams of working in film.
Party girls serve us in eras of decadence and frivolity, but when the tides change, they become a liability. Asgoes on, Nelly begins partying too much; she’s addicted to gambling. Following the decadent 1920s and the crash of 1929, the modern conservative movement grew in the wake of FDR’s New Deal; people could no longer afford frivolity. The studios try to “fix” Nelly’s diction, taming her Jersey accent for films with sound, cleaning up her reputation so she can woo rich patrons.
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