Glamour in a golden age : movie stars of the 1930s /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2011]
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Series: | Star decades: American culture/American cinema.
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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.