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Larger Than Life : Movie Stars of the 1950s /
The constellation of Hollywood stars burned brightly in the 1950s, even as the industry fell on hard economic times. Major artists of the 1940s continued to exert a magical appeal but the younger generation of moviegoers was soon enthralled by an emerging cast, led by James Dean and Marlon Brando. T...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / R. Barton Palmer
- Montgomery Clift : Hollywood pseudohomosexual / Tison Pugh, Barry Sandler
- Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck : organization men / R. Barton Palmer
- James Stewart and James Dean : the darkness within / Murray Pomerance
- James Mason : a star is born bigger than life / Amy Lawrence
- Reflexivity and metaperformance : Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Kim Novak / Matthew Solomon
- Audrey Hepburn : the film star as event / William Brown
- Doris Day and Rock Hudson : the girl next door and the brawny he-man / Foster Hirsch
- Marlon Brando : actor, star, liar / Susan White
- Jerry Lewis : from Hamlet to clown / Frank Krutnik
- Judy Holliday : the hungry star / Pamela Robertson Wojcik
- What a swell party this was : Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra / Adrienne L. McLean
- In the wings / R. Barton Palmer.