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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461698903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-86449-5

1-78034-788-X

0-8135-5233-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

Star decades: American culture/American cinema

Altri autori (Persone)

McLeanAdrienne L

Disciplina

791.4302/80922

B

Soggetti

Motion picture actors and actresses - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, and Gary Cooper-Glamour in a Golden Age presents original essays from eminent film scholars that analyze movie stars of



the 1930's 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 to become recognized and admired-sometimes even notorious-parts of the cultural landscape. Using archival and popular material, including fan and mass market magazines, other promotional and publicity material, and of course films themselves, contributors also discuss other artists who were incredibly popular at the time, among them Ann Harding, Ruth Chatterton, Nancy Carroll, Kay Francis, and Constance Bennett.