Glamour in a golden age [electronic resource] : movie stars of the 1930s / edited by Adrienne L. McLean.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Star decades: American culture/American cinemaPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.Description: ix, 297 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/80922 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.2 .G59 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: stardom in the 1930s / Adrienne L. McLean -- Not of Hollywood: Ruth Chatterton, Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Kay Francis, and Nancy Carroll / 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 through history / Ina Rae Hark -- Jean Harlow: tragic blonde / Susan Ohmer -- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: modernizing class / Adam Knee -- Myrna Loy and William Powell : the perfect screen couple / James Castonguay -- Clark Gable: the king of Hollywood / Christine Becker -- In the wings / Adrienne L. McLean.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: stardom in the 1930s / Adrienne L. McLean -- Not of Hollywood: Ruth Chatterton, Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Kay Francis, and Nancy Carroll / 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 through history / Ina Rae Hark -- Jean Harlow: tragic blonde / Susan Ohmer -- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: modernizing class / Adam Knee -- Myrna Loy and William Powell : the perfect screen couple / James Castonguay -- Clark Gable: the king of Hollywood / Christine Becker -- In the wings / Adrienne L. McLean.

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