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Scandals of classic Hollywood : sex, deviance, and drama from the golden age of American cinema / Anne Helen Petersen.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U65 P48 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petersen, Anne Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--Anecdotes.
- Motion picture industry.
- Scandals--California--Los Angeles.
- Scandals.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Plume, [2014].
- Summary:
- "A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's Golden Age, featuring notorious personalities including Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Twilight of the idols. Pickford and Fairbanks : American royalty ; Fatty Arbuckle : fall guy of the film industry ; Wallace Reid : Hollywood's first drug addict
- Silent sex symbols. Rudolph Valentino's slave bracelet ; Clara Bow : the "it" girl
- The blonde menace. Jean Harlow : the platinum panic ; Mae West : when she's bad, she's better
- Old loves. Gable and Lombard : lumberjack meets glamour girl ; Bogart and Bacall : first couple of film noir
- Broken by the system. Judy Garland : ugly duckling ; Dorothy Dandridge vs. the world
- Three angry men. The long suicide of Montgomery Clift ; Marlon Brando's dirty dungarees ; James Dean : entombed in his own myth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 014218067X
- 9780142180679
- OCLC:
- 881385740
- Publisher Number:
- 99962115962
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