THAT WOMAN IS ME: RODEO GALS

10.24.2012

RODEO GALS

The wonderful Patsy Kelly (the maid) takes Merle Oberon (her mistress)

to a rodeo in Palm Beach, Florida (go figure)

where they meet the one and only Gary Cooper.

Seduction,

second thoughts

and passion follow.

They then marry on a ship to Galveston, Texas.

After a rough stint in a rodeo camp, Merle returns to Palm Beach,

but decides to leave it all behind and in true Depression-era style

moves to Montana to be a good wife to Gary Cooper. Wouldn't you?

Merle Oberon in THE COWBOY AND THE LADY (1938).

Directed by H.C. Potter. Cinematography by Gregg Toland.
Costume Design by Omar Kiam. Also starring Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper,

Emma Dunn, Patsy Kelly, Fuzzy Knight, Merle Oberon and Mabel Todd.

Original DVD framegrab photography by Will Holub 2012.

Since April of 2012, American artist WILL HOLUB has been publishing his digital project THAT WOMAN IS ME, which explores gender-defining images of women in visual culture and technology. With an emphasis on cinema, THAT WOMAN IS ME also functions as a carefully researched movie database honoring the achievements of an eclectic assortment of actors, directors and cinematographers. Most images, which are presented in storyboard-like sequences, are original movie framegrab photographs that WILL HOLUB takes with a tripod-mounted camera while screening DVDs. Additional images are screen captures from streaming movies, downloads from other websites, or selections drawn from his own art and photography archives.