Issue #1 - March 2026  --   Bell, Book & Camera Productions Who Were The Ingenues? A chance discovery of a Rolling Stones record bearing the name Ginny Zender led to an unexpected friendship—and the forgotten story of the Jazz Age band known as The Ingenues. Ginny & Juel is ultimately a film about The Ingenues , one of the most famous “all-girl” bands of the 1920s. But to understand the band, you need to understand the era. The word ingenues was ubiquitous in the 1920s and used to describe alluring yet innocent young women. After all, the 1920s was the Jazz Age, and young women enjoyed newfound freedoms – freedoms that were not known by their mothers or grandmothers. On stage and on screen, the ingenue became a popular trope that captivated audiences. Hollywood stars like Mary Pickford, Clara Bow, and Colleen Moore embodied the type, while the flapper became the cultural symbol of a generation of women embracing new freedoms. Riding on the popularity of this idea...