The subject of women and how they were regarded over the course of the modern era is not by any means new. Writers, feminists, anti-feminists, politicians, political commentators, psychologist, journalists, celebrities, housewives, students, historians and many others have written on this subject in varying degrees of depth and seriousness. But in the twentieth century, as a mainly print based culture gawe way to one which, at the start of the twenty first century, is primarily image – and media-based, it was the way these physical/cultural/social expectations were tied together with and within the medium of film, and dissiminated in the person of the actress ( be she a live woman or a drawing), which became important. It is with the mages of women in popular culture that all of the aspects of American societys changing attitudes towards women were mapped.