Title: In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s
Description: In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dramatize them in biography, cinema, and performance for public consumption during the 1930s--back cover.
Subjects: Marie antoinette, queen, consort of louis xvi, king of france, 1755-1793, Zweig, stefan, 1881-1942, Queens, Biography as a literary form, France, biography, Criticism and interpretation, History in motion pictures, Queens in motion pictures