Glamour in a golden age
Subtitle: movie stars of the 1930s
By: edited by Adrienne L. McLean
Series: Star decades: American culture/American cinema
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780813549040; 9780813549057
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: stars in the 1930s / Adrienne L. McLean; title: Not of Hollywood: Ann Harding, Ruth Chatterton, Nancy Carroll, Kay Francis, and Constance Bennett / Mary Desjardins; title: Shirley Temple: making dreams come true / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley; title: Gary Cooper: rugged elegance / Corey K. Creekmur; title: Bette Davis: worker and queen / Lucy Fischer; title: Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: the sexy hausfrau vs. the Swedish sphinx / Alexander Doty; title: Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford: rivals at the glamour factory / David M. Lugowski; title: Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: romancing across the centuries / Ina Rae Hark; title: Jean Harlow: tragic blonde / Susan Ohmer; title: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: modernizing class / Adam Knee; title: Myrna Loy and William Powell: gender, genre, and the "perfect screen couple" / James Castonguay; title: Clark Gable: the king of Hollywood / Christine Becker; title: In the wings / Adrienne L. McLean.