Glamour in a golden age : movie stars of the 1930s /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McLean, Adrienne L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Series:Star decades: American culture/American cinema.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: stars in the 1930s / Adrienne L. McLean
  • Not of Hollywood: Ann Harding, Ruth Chatterton, Nancy Carroll, Kay Francis, and Constance Bennett / Mary Desjardins
  • Shirley Temple: making dreams come true / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
  • Gary Cooper: rugged elegance / Corey K. Creekmur
  • Bette Davis: worker and queen / Lucy Fischer
  • Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: the sexy hausfrau vs. the Swedish sphinx / Alexander Doty
  • Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford: rivals at the glamour factory / David M. Lugowski
  • Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: romancing across the centuries / Ina Rae Hark
  • Jean Harlow: tragic blonde / Susan Ohmer
  • Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: modernizing class / Adam Knee
  • Myrna Loy and William Powell: gender, genre, and the "perfect screen couple" / James Castonguay
  • Clark Gable: the king of Hollywood / Christine Becker
  • In the wings / Adrienne L. McLean.