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Scandals of classic Hollywood : sex, deviance, and drama from the golden age of American cinema

Petersen, Anne Helen2014
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"A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's Golden Age, featuring notorious personalities including Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, and more"--
Main title:
Scandals of classic Hollywood : sex, deviance, and drama from the golden age of American cinema / Anne Helen Petersen.
Author:
Petersen, Anne Helen
Work:
Scandals of classic Hollywood : sex, deviance, and drama from the golden age of American cinema
Imprint:
New York, New York : Plume, 2014.New York, New York : Plume, 2014.©2014
Collation:
xiii, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-289)
Shelving notes:
33684 0000125046 1 03-09-2014 99 http://www.amazon.com/Scandals-Classic-Hollywood-Deviance-American/dp/014218067X/http://thehairpin.com/2013/01/anne-helen-petersens-scandals-of-classic-hollywood-the-book/ nyctro 18-09-2014 7
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: v. ONE Twilight of the Idols -- ch. One Pickford and Fairbanks: American Royalty -- ch. Two Fatty Arbuckle: Fall Guy of the Film Industry -- ch. Three Wallace Reid: Hollywood's First Drug Addict -- v. TWO Silent Sex Symbols -- ch. Four Rudolph Valentino's Slave Bracelet -- ch. Five Clara Bow: The "It" Girl -- v. THREE The Blonde Menace -- ch. Six Jean Harlow: The Platinum Panic -- ch. Seven Mae West: When She's Bad, She's Better -- v. FOUR Old Loves -- ch. Eight Gable and Lombard: Lumberjack Meets Glamour Girl -- ch. Nine Bogart and Bacall: First Couple of Film Noir -- v. FIVE Broken by the System -- ch. Ten Judy Garland: Ugly Duckling -- ch. Eleven Dorothy Dandridge vs. the World -- v. SIX Three Angry Men -- ch. Twelve The Long Suicide of Montgomery Clift -- ch. Thirteen Marlon Brando's Dirty Dungarees -- ch. Fourteen James Dean: Entombed in His Own Myth.
ISBN:
9780142180679 (paperback)014218067X (paperback)
Dewey class:
384.80979494791.4365
Language:
English
Subject:
Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- BiographyMotion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- AnecdotesScandals -- California -- Los Angeles
BRN:
108222
Bookmark link:
https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=108222
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