Carole Landis : a most beautiful girl / Eric Gans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gans, Eric Lawrence, 1941-

Series:

Hollywood legends series.

Hollywood legends series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Landis, Carole, 1919-1948.

Landis, Carole.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite appearing in twenty-eight movies in little over a decade, Carole Landis (1919-1948) never quite became the major Hollywood star her onscreen presence should have afforded her. Although she acted in such enduring films as A Scandal in Paris and Moon over Miami , she was most often relegated to supporting roles. Even when she played the major role in a feature, as she did in The Powers Girl and the film noir I Wake Up Screaming! , she was billed second or third behind other actors. This biography traces Landis's life, chronicling her beginnings as a dance hall entertainer in San Francisc

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Beginnings (1919-1935); Chapter 2. In Northern California (1935-1937); Chapter 3. First Years in Hollywood (1937-1939); Chapter 4. Ping Girl: At Roach Studios (1939-1940); Chapter 5. "Sex-Loaded": At Twentieth Century-Fox (1941); Chapter 6. B Actress and Patriot (1941-1942); Chapter 7. The Gift of Beauty: Carole at War (1942-1944); Chapter 8. Regrouping (1945-1946); Chapter 9. Anglophilia (1947-1948); Chapter 10. The Good Die Young (1948); Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-265) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 266-269.

ISBN:

1-282-48569-5

9786612485695

1-60473-319-5

OCLC:

317401629