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Best Female Lead in Movies About Cinema Fandom and Movie Business
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Ever since Hollywood arose, women played in lead roles. Some of these films are telling about movie business or at least about cinematic fandom. Here we have some female protagonists who rocked it.
Which of them is your favorite character?
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Cate Blanchett in The Aviator (2004)
Katharine Hepburn
Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (1968)
Fanny Brice
Bérénice Bejo in The Artist (2011)
Peppy Miller
Audrey Tautou in Amélie (2001)
Amélie Poulain
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Norma Desmond
Emma Stone in La La Land (2016)
Mia
Chloë Grace Moretz and Asa Butterfield in Hugo (2011)
Isabelle
Elle Fanning in Super 8 (2011)
Alice Dainard
Mélanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Shosanna
Helen Mirren in Hitchcock (2012)
Alma Reville
Scarlett Johansson in Hail, Caesar! (2016)
DeeAnna Moran
Mia Goth in Pearl (2022)
Pearl
Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Baby Jane Hudson
Cathy Moriarty in Matinee (1993)
Ruth Corday, Carole in 'Mant!'
Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Cecilia
Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Kathy Selden
Margot Robbie in Babylon (2022)
Nellie LaRoy
Thomas Mann and Olivia Cooke in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Rachel
Natalie Wood in Gypsy (1962)
Louise Hovick
Jean Hagen in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Lina Lamont
Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive (2001)
Betty Elms
Margot Robbie in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Sharon Tate
Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Marilyn Monroe
Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars (2014)
Havana Segrand
Nicole Kidman in Grace of Monaco (2014)
Grace (Kelly)
Tina Apicella and Anna Magnani in Bellissima (1951)
Maddalena Cecconi
Anne Baxter and Gary Merrill in All About Eve (1950)
Eve
Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950)
Margo
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