What dreams were made of movie stars of the 1940s / [electronic resource] :
edited by Sean Griffin.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
- ix, 259 p. : ill.
- Star decades: American culture/American cinema .
- Star decades: American culture/American cinema. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.
Introduction : stardom in the 1940s / Sean Griffin -- Abbott and Costello: Wwo'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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN1998.2 / .W45 2011eb
791.4302/80922 B
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.
Introduction : stardom in the 1940s / Sean Griffin -- Abbott and Costello: Wwo'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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN1998.2 / .W45 2011eb
791.4302/80922 B