In Bright Young Things, Letty Larkspur leaves small town Ohio for Manhattan. She hopes to become a star—like the actress Renee Adoree, pictured in this glamor shot from a 1920s gossip magazine—but she doesn’t quite know how to go about it. Today, aspiring actresses are wary of sleazy male agents who promise them the world, but for the girls who performed in the speakeasies of the 1920s, the promise of fame was hard to resist.
Learn more about Letty by visiting her personal BYT page. Then, tell us, can you relate to her dreams of fame of fortune?
