Glamour in a golden age [electronic resource] : movie stars of the 1930s / edited by Adrienne L. McLean.
McLean, Adrienne L.
2011
PN1998.2 .G59 2011eb
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Title Glamour in a golden age [electronic resource] : movie stars of the 1930s / edited by Adrienne L. McLean.
ISBN 9780813552330 (electronic bk.)
9780813549040
9780813549057 (pbk.)
Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 297 p.) : ill.
Call Number PN1998.2 .G59 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4302/80922 B
Summary Glamour in a Golden Age, incorporating archival and popular material, including fan and mass market magazines, other promotional and publicity material, and films themselves, presents original essays from eminent film scholars that analyze movie stars of the 1930s. Against the background of contemporary American cultural history, stardom is approached as an effect of, and influence on, the particular historical and industrial contexts that enabled these actors and actresses to be discovered, featured in films, publicized, and become recognized and admired--sometimes even notorious....
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Desciption based on print version record.
Added Author McLean, Adrienne L.
Series Star decades: American culture/American cinema
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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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