1.   American actresses retain their second-class status.

2.   Amy Irving and Marsha Mason have agreed to be among the four American actresses who will film the adaptation in Rio de Janeiro, he added.

3.   And Ms. Streep has occasion to remind audiences that she is, after all, the best American actress of her generation.

4.   Effortlessly, this enormously promising American actress persuades us that Millie too has an inner life and a strong backbone.

5.   Here are five other young American actresses who could join Gwyneth Paltrow in Oscar history some day.

6.   Now comes Thurman, the first prominent American actress to endorse a big cosmetics brand.

7.   She had the most commanding presence of any American actress of her generation and was a natural to play queens and matriarchs.

8.   The film, which opens Friday, drew some controversy early in its production when an American actress, Renee Zellweger, was chosen to play the title character.

9.   The newspaper said the film casts Ms. Roberts as an American actress who falls in love with a secondhand-book dealer played by Grant.

10.   Whether this means that French filmmakers can be more honest or that young American actresses are spared exploitation is a matter for argument.