Nobody's girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood / by Smyth, J. E., 1977-

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Glamour in a golden age : movie stars of the 1930s /

Table of Contents: “…Gary Cooper: Rugged Elegance; 4. Bette Davis: Worker and Queen; 5. Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: The Sexy Hausfrau versus the Swedish Sphinx; 6. …”
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Tennessee Williams : mad pilgrimage of the flesh / by Lahr, John, 1941-

You ain't heard nothin' yet : interviews with stars from Hollywood's golden era /

Table of Contents: “…Anthony Dexter -- Henry Fonda -- Victor Mature -- Walter Pidgeon -- Robert Preston -- James Stewart -- Cornel Wilde -- Robert Young -- The Leading Ladies. Bette Davis -- Yvonne De Carlo -- Janet Leigh -- Joan Leslie -- Patricia Neal -- Maureen O'Sullivan -- Jane Russell -- Jean Simmons -- Alexis Smith -- Elizabeth Taylor: My Seven Minutes Alone with Elizabeth Taylor -- Esther Williams -- Jane Wyatt -- Child Stars and How They Grew. …”
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British women's cinema /

Table of Contents: “…The hour of the cuckoo : reclaiming the British woman's film / Melanie Bell and Mealnie Williams -- Pictures, romance and luxury : women and British cinema in the 1910s and 1920s / Nathalie Morris -- 'Twenty million people can't be wrong' : Anna Neagle and popular British stardom / Josephine Dolan and Sarah Street -- The Hollywood woman's film and British audiences : a case study of Bette Davis and Now, Voyager / Mark Glancy -- Ingénues, lovers, wives and mothers : the 1940s career trajectories of Googie Withers and Phyllis Calvert / Brian McFarlane -- A landscape of desire : Cornwall as romantic setting in Love story and Ladies in lavender / Rachel Moseley -- 'A prize collection of familiar feminine types' : the female group film in 1950s British cinema / Melanie Bell -- Swinging femininity, 1960s transnational style / Marcia Landy -- The British women's picture : methodology, agency and performance in the 1970s / Sue Harper -- 'The Hollywood formula has been infected': the post-punk female meets the woman's film, Breaking glass / Claire Monk -- 'It's been emotional' : reassessing the contemporary British woman's film / Justine Ashby -- Not to be looked at : older women in recent British cinema / Imelda Whelehan -- Selective filmography / Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.…”
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Playing to the camera : film actors discuss their craft /

Table of Contents: “…The actress plays her part / Bette Davis -- A life on film / Mary Astor -- The player : a profile of an art / Joan Crawford -- Notes on film acting / Hume Cronyn -- The many-splendored actor / James Stewart -- Reflections on forty years of make-believe / Henry Fonda -- Interview with the actress / Gloria Swanson -- Dialogue on screen acting / Katharine Hepburn -- Walking the Hollywood color line / Sidney Poitier -- When women were in the movies / Meryl Streep -- "Commercial" isn't a dirty word, any more than "comedy" / Jeff Daniels -- Conversation with the actor / Jack Lemmon -- The Playboy interview / Marlon Brando -- Dialogue with the actor / Robert De Niro -- Interview with the actor / Dustin Hoffman -- "The bird is on his own" / Jack Nicholson -- "Acting has to be about something else" / Lindsay Crouse.…”

The dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown : civil rights, censorship, and the American library / by Robbins, Louise S.

The star system : Hollywood's production of popular identities / by McDonald, Paul, 1963-

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Britton on film : the complete film criticism of Andrew Britton / by Britton, Andrew, 1952-1994

Table of Contents: “…Cary Grant: comedy and male desire -- A new servitude: Bette Davis, Now, voyager, and the radicalism of the woman's film -- The devil, probably: the symbolism of evil -- Sideshows: Hollywood in Vietnam -- Blissing out: the politics of Reaganite entertainment -- Meet me in St. …”
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Alice Faye : a life beyond the silver screen / by Elder, Jane Lenz

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The many cinemas of Michael Curtiz /

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance -- Bending it like Curtiz : gender and genre in the Scarlet hour and the Helen Morgan story / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Making a Life with Father / David Desser -- The Jewish Jazz Singer remakes his voice : Michael Curtiz's update of the Warner Bros. classic / Seth Friedman -- "Don't fence me in" : the making of Night and Day / Mark Glancy -- Long love the queen : Bette Davis, Curtiz, and female melodrama / David Greven -- Double-time in America : Yankee doodle dandy / Julie Grossman -- Mildred Pierce : from script to screen / Kristen Hatch -- Curtiz at sea : Captain Blood, the Sea Hawk, the Sea Wolf, and the Breaking Point / Nathan Holmes -- Curtiz in the White House / Bill Krohn -- The spectacle of the ages : Noah's Ark / Katharina Loew -- Jazz me blues : lo-fi, fantasy, audiovisuality in young man with a horn / Robert Miklitsch -- A setting sun : the Egyptian / Deron Overpeck -- King Creole : Michael Curtiz and the great elvis Presley industry / Landon Palmer -- Michael Curtiz's political cinema of sorts / R. …”
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The 100 greatest stars of all time /

Table of Contents: “…The top ten (Humphrey Bogart -- Katharine Hepburn -- Jimmy Stewart -- Marilyn Monroe -- John Wayne -- Cary Grant -- Marlon Brandon -- Clark Gable -- Charlie Chaplin -- Bette Davis) -- The leading men (Paul Newman -- Rudolph Valentino -- Tom Cruise -- Sidney Poitier -- John Travolta -- William Holden -- Warren Beatty -- Denzel Washington -- Rock Hudson -- Robert Redford) -- The sex goddesses (Elizabeth Taylor -- Marlene Dietrich -- Rita Hayworth -- Jean Harlow -- Brigitte Bardot -- Sharon Stone -- Ava Gardner -- Sophia Loren)…”

Nobody's girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood / by Smyth, J. E., 1977-

Cinema and spectatorship / by Mayne, Judith

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Top 40+ : the latest & greatest pop songs /

Table of Contents: “…Wallace and Ken Beil -- Truly / Lionel Richie -- When we make love / Mentor Williams and Troy Seals -- White wedding (Part I) / Billy Idol -- You should hear how she talks about you / Tom Snow -- Stuck on you / Lionel Richie -- Get closer / Johnathan Carroll -- Alibis / Tom Snow and Tony Macaulay -- Bette Davis eyes / Jackie Deshannon -- I just came here to dance / Ken Beil, Terry Skinner and J.L. …”

British women's cinema /

Table of Contents: “…The hour of the cuckoo : reclaiming the British woman's film / Melanie Bell and Mealnie Williams -- Pictures, romance and luxury : women and British cinema in the 1910s and 1920s / Nathalie Morris -- 'Twenty million people can't be wrong' : Anna Neagle and popular British stardom / Josephine Dolan and Sarah Street -- The Hollywood woman's film and British audiences : a case study of Bette Davis and Now, Voyager / Mark Glancy -- Ingénues, lovers, wives and mothers : the 1940s career trajectories of Googie Withers and Phyllis Calvert / Brian McFarlane -- A landscape of desire : Cornwall as romantic setting in Love story and Ladies in lavender / Rachel Moseley -- 'A prize collection of familiar feminine types' : the female group film in 1950s British cinema / Melanie Bell -- Swinging femininity, 1960s transnational style / Marcia Landy -- The British women's picture : methodology, agency and performance in the 1970s / Sue Harper -- 'The Hollywood formula has been infected': the post-punk female meets the woman's film, Breaking glass / Claire Monk -- 'It's been emotional' : reassessing the contemporary British woman's film / Justine Ashby -- Not to be looked at : older women in recent British cinema / Imelda Whelehan -- Selective filmography / Melanie Bell and Melanie Williams.…”
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Lives together/worlds apart : mothers and daughters in popular culture / by Walters, Suzanna Danuta

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Shipwrecked on a traffic island : and other previously untranslated gems / by Colette, 1873-1954

Table of Contents: “…"; Movies, Theater, and Vaudeville; Why I Love Bette Davis; From Both Sides of the Curtain; A Distinguished Connoisseur; French Wine, Perfume, and Dolls; The Wines of France; Fragrances; Dolls.…”
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From Mae to Madonna : women entertainers in twentieth-century America / by Sochen, June, 1937-

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England's Elizabeth : an afterlife in fame and fantasy / by Dobson, Michael, 1960-

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