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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The central characteristic of 'glamour' in the starry heavens of 1930s Hollywood received illuminating backlighting in McLean's collection. A construct encompassing elegance, luxury, romance, and sex appeal, glamour shines, even scintillates, through the galaxy of celebrities covered in this sparkling volume in the 'Star Decades' series. Recommended." * Choice *
"The central characteristic of 'glamour' in the starry heavens of 1930s Hollywood received illuminating backlighting in McLean's collection. A construct encompassing elegance, luxury, romance, and sex appeal, glamour shines, even scintillates, through the galaxy of celebrities covered in this sparkling volume in the 'Star Decades' series. Recommended." * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Stardom in the 1930s
1. Not of Hollywood: Ruth Chatterton, Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Kay Francis, and Nancy Carroll
2. Shirley Temple: Making Dreams Come True
3. Gary Cooper: Rugged Elegance
4. Bette Davis: Worker and Queen
5. Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: The Sexy Hausfrau versus the Swedish Sphinx
6. Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford: Rivals at the Glamour Factory
7. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: Romancing through History
8. Jean Harlow: Tragic Blonde
9. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Modernizing Class
10. Myrna Loy and William Powell: The Perfect Screen Couple
11. Clark Gable: The King of Hollywood
In the Wings
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
