Show people: a history of the film star

Mary Pickford: the biograph girl

Pola Negri: inventing the star

Charlie Chaplin: the tramp

'Asta' and Cheeta': the animal star

Peter Lorre: character actor

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly: a star danced

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant: the public image

Vivien Leigh: ruinous selves

Veronica Lake: half-obscured faces

Carole Lombard: the screwball heroine

Greer Garson and Joan Fontaine: the forgotten star

Orson Welles: the film star as fragment and failure

Ingrid Bergman: intermezzo

Lamberto Maggiorani and Maria Pia Casilio: absent film stars in Vittorio de Sica's films

Moira Shearer: the marionette

Gloria Swanson: having a face

Ava Gardner: I am not an actress

Montgomery Clift: he's not there

Setsuko Hara: the still point

Toshiro Mifune: studying lions

Nargis and Raj Kapoor: my heart is Hindustani

Giulette Masina and Marcello Mastroianni: nothing is sadder than laughter

John Wayne: how to grow old

Audrey Hepburn: Frankenstein's creature

Marilyn Monroe: the suffering star

Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner: Imitation of life

Janet Leigh and Tippi Hedren: torturing the audience

Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant: the strange death of the Hollywood golden age

Anna Karina: the muse

Celia Johnson and Julie Christie: the adulterous star

Sidney Poitier: the defiant one

Dustin Hoffman: little big man

Woody Allen: the director as star

Robert de Niro: for real

Harrison Ford: Blade runner and the replication of the person

Maggei Cheung: centre stage

Naomi Watts: Mulholland Drive

Scarlett Johansson: a new kind of emptiness

Shu Qi: a placeless heaven

Andy Serkis: Lear's shadow.