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
Celia Johnson and Julie Christie: the adulterous star
Sidney Poitier: the defiant one
Dustin Hoffman: little big man
Woody Allen: the director as star
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.
