"Childhood Doll Hating In Female Coming-Of-Age Films Of The Late '50s-Early '60s"
Jean Seberg in Bonjour Tristesse, Otto Preminger, 1958
Natalie Wood in Splendor In The Grass, Elia Kazan, 1961
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