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| Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars |
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Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars
It Girl Clara Bow • silent character star Gladys Brockwell • dancers Vernon and Irene Castle • jazz baby Bebe Daniels • sparkling comedienne Marion Davies • Broadway great Jeanne Eagels • the original Harrison Ford • comic imp Dorothy Gish • boy-next-door William Haines • Griffith protege Robert Harron • “the first movie star” May Irwin • early leading man Arthur Johnson • dramatic great Alice Joyce • action heroine Florence LaBadie • French comic genius Max Linder • swashbuckling stunt pilot Ormer Locklear • endearing comic Douglas MacLean • Ziegfeld beauty Martha Mansfield • dramatic genius Mae Marsh • flapper Colleen Moore • Spanish heart-throb Antonio Moreno • wise-cracking vamp Nita Naldi • Russian star Alla Nazimova • eccentric diva Pola Negri • scandal-plagued Mary Nolan • dancing daughter Anita Page • tragic Mack Sennett comedienne Marie Prevost • 1920s beauty Esther Ralston • action star and drug victim Wallace Reid • doomed dramatic actress Alma Rubens • early jazz baby Clarine Seymour • brainy leading man Milton Sills • star sisters Constance & Norma Talmadge • sly comic Lilyan Tashman • “the first flapper” Olive Thomas • iconic sheik Rudolph Valentino • “eternally youthful” Fannie Ward • action star Pearl White • pioneering film star Kathlyn Williams • dramatic actress Clara Kimball Young
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McFarland & Company, 2001
239 pages, 100 photos
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| Clara Bow, ca. 1926 |
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| Rudolph Valentino, ca. 1925 |
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| Bride of Golden Images: Essays on Stars of the 1930s-60s |
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Bride of Golden Images: Essays on Stars of the 1930s-60s
Frank Capra’s comic Jean Arthur • handsome dramatic lead Warner Baxter • glamour queen Constance Bennett • wisecracking Joan Blondell • debonair musical comic Jack Buchanan • versatile character star Billie Burke • Broadway sophisticate Ina Claire • the matchless Claudette Colbert • the under-rated Joan Crawford • ill-fated Follies girl Dorothy Dell • dazzling and versatile Marlene Dietrich • Marx Bros. straight-woman Margaret Dumont • vaudeville stars Vivian & Rosetta Duncan • the irrepressible Jimmy Durante • Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards • Peg Entwistle, the actress who jumped from the HOLLYWOOD sign • the unfathomable Greta Garbo • adorable song-and-dance girl Betty Grable • gangly character comic Charlotte Greenwood • conjoined twins Daisy & Violet Hilton • brilliant, blighted Judy Holliday • male starlet and WWII casualty Phillips Holmes • reliably hilarious Edward Everett Horton • showgirl and career bride Peggy Hopkins Joyce • “Boop-a-Doop Girl” Helen Kane • boisterous singer Winnie Lightner • romantic lead Ben Lyon • the always-bubbly Jayne Mansfield • musical-comedy star Marilyn Miller • the very imitatable Carmen Miranda • a no-nonsense look at Marilyn Monroe • 1930s German star Renate Müller • second banana Jack Oakie • 1930s comic bombshell Lyda Roberti • Norma Shearer, the Queen of MGM • Barbara Stanwyck, who never gave a bad performance • poor, star-crossed Inger Stevens • the blighted career of Sharon Tate • comic foil Thelma Todd • 1950s musical star Judy Tyler • lovely spitfire Lupe Velez • early-talkie flapper Alice White
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BearManor Media, 2009
385 pages, 100 photos
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| Joan Crawford, ca. 1940 |
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| Jimmy Durante |
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