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Table of 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.

Contributors:

McLean, Adrienne L.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Star decades: American culture/American cinema

Subjects:

Motion picture actors and actresses — United States — Biography

Motion picture actors and actresses

United States

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN1998.2 .G59 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780813552330 (electronic bk.)
0813552338 (electronic bk.)
9780813549040 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0813549043 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780813549057 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0813549051 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

778339951

Other Control Numbers:

EBC862764 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp7457938