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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DiBattista, Maria, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.