The Bennetts : an acting family / Brian Kellow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellow, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

Bennett, Richard, 1873-1944.

Bennett, Richard.

Bennett, Constance, 1904-1965.

Bennett, Constance.

Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990.

Bennett, Joan.

Bennett, Barbara, 1906-1958.

Bennett, Barbara.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"" The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard's fame was eclipsed by that of his daughters, Constance and Joan, who went to Hollywood in the 1920's and found major success there. Constance became the highest-paid actress of the early 1930's, earning as much as 30,000 a week in melodramas. Later she reinvented herself as a comedienne in the classic

Contents:

Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. 1870-1900; 2. 1900-1904; 3. 1904-1914; 4. 1914-1920; 5. 1920-1924; 6. 1925-1927; 7. 1927-1929; 8. 1929-1930; 9. 1930-1931; 10. 1931-1932; 11. 1933-1935; Photo Insert 1; 12. 1934-1937; 13. 1937-1940; 14. 1941-1943; 15. 1944; 16. 1945-1947; 17. 1948; 18. 1949-1950; 19. 1951-1952; 20. 1953-1958; Photo Insert 2; 21. 1959-1965; 22. 1966-1971; 23. 1972-1990; Feature Films; Selected Television Appearances; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613232953

9780813138183

0813138183

9781283232951

1283232952

9780813171920

081317192X

OCLC:

67555529