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The beautiful and the damned: the cinematic afterlife of Sharon Tate
Media ubiquity helped to establish Sharon Tate as a countercultural muse in the 1960s – but her substantial acting talents were largely overlooked in her lifetime, and then eclipsed altogether by the violent death that came to define her legacy.
By Erik Morse
The beautiful and the damned: the cinematic afterlife of Sharon Tate