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What dreams were made of : movie stars of the 1940s / edited by Sean Griffin.
LIBRA PN1998.2 .W45 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Star decades: American culture/American cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction : stardom in the 1940s / Sean Griffin
- Abbott and Costello: Who's on first / David Sedman
- Gene Autry and Roy Rogers: the light of western stars / Ed Buscombe
- Ingrid Bergman: the face of authenticity in the land of illusion / Robin Blaetz
- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: tough guy and cool dame / Rick Worland
- Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, and Barbara Stanwyck: American homefront women / David M. Lugowski
- Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney: babes and beyond / Sean Griffin
- Greer Garson: gallant ladies and British wartime femininity / Hannah Hamad
- Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth: pinned up / Adrienne L. McLean
- Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn: domesticated mavericks / Charlie Kiel
- John Wayne: hero, leading man, innocent, and troubled figure / Edward Countryman
- In the wings / Sean Griffin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813549637
- 0813549639
- 9780813549644
- 0813549647
- OCLC:
- 642624782
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