Unlike her film heroine, Ms. Kizawa still works at Club Ohogi three nights a week.

Surely, Deirdre says, trembling like one of those silent film heroines who were always being tied to the tracks, the great actor's spirit must haunt the place.

For this current breed of film heroine, feminity and feminism may be almost interchangeable.

Now she's a film heroine as well.

"I'm alone in the world," I said, and was struck anew by my likeness to a film heroine.

There was a time, lost in the literal half-light of the film noir heroine, when a high-heeled shoe said something about a woman.

A film heroine, Rama Vij, also performed on stages with him.

Sameera Reddy as Sapna, Bobby's love interest, and his film heroine.

She is the Indian film heroine with the longest career as the main lead female heroine in Indian films - 29 years from 1955-1984.

Hat-blind from the spotlight, she stumbled and fell in a parody of countless film heroines destined to be run down by the villain.