Why No One Wants to Visit Anna Maria Island, Florida Anymore

Wooden boxes. Dugout trenches. Platform heels hidden under floor-length gowns. Camera angles chosen so a five-foot-nothing actress could stand eye to eye with a leading man built like a doorframe. Part one was thirteen examples out of a practice that ran for the better part of a century. Here are thirteen more — including an eleven-inch gap between two of the biggest names in Hollywood history, documented in their own handwriting, and an actress who admitted decades later that she'd spent her entire career learning how to fool people about her own size.