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Mean ... Moody ... Magnificent! : Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend /

"By the early 1950s, Jane Russell (1921-2011) should have been forgotten. Her career was launched in what is arguably the most notorious advertising campaign in cinema history, which invited filmgoers to see Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (1943) and to "tussle with Russell." Througho...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rice, Christina, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Colección:Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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