Fast-talking dames /
"'There is nothing like a dame, ' proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and '40s. In this engaging book, film scholar and movie buff Maria DiBattista celebrates the fast-talking dame as an Amer...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2001]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fast-talking dames
- Female Pygmalions
- Blonde bombshells : Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, and Ginger Rogers
- My favorite brunettes : Myrna Loy, Jean Arthur, and Claudette Colbert
- Missing links : Bringing up baby
- The lady-dame : Irene Dunne and The awful truth
- Garbo's laugh
- Female rampant : His girl friday
- The Lady Eve and the female con
- Conclusion : blonds born yesterday.