Tabla de Contenidos: “…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…”