NOT THE FULL STORY: REPRESENTING RUTH ELLIS

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, lingers in the popular imagination in two films, the fictional Yield to the Night (1956) and the Ellis biopic Dance with a Stranger (1985). This article examines how the film medium reworks biographical details to shape and define Ellis herself, he...

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Published inBiography (Honolulu) Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1 - 28
Main Author TWEG, SUE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press for the Biographical Research Center 22.12.2000
University of Hawai'i Press
University of Hawaii Press
University Press of Hawaii for the Biographical Research Center
Subjects
Actors
Analysis
Biographical fiction
Biographical films
Biographical movies
Biographies
Capital punishment
Ellis, Ruth
Film noir
Guns
Historiography
History
Melodrama
Mothers
Motion picture criticism
Motion picture industry
Movies
Murders & murder attempts
Narratives
Offenders
Prisons
Ruth Ellis
Self concept
Stranger relations
United Kingdom
Women murderers
United States
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, lingers in the popular imagination in two films, the fictional Yield to the Night (1956) and the Ellis biopic Dance with a Stranger (1985). This article examines how the film medium reworks biographical details to shape and define Ellis herself, her fictional alter ego, and two female film stars.
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ISSN:0162-4962
1529-1456
1529-1456
DOI:10.1353/bio.1999.0023