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The Bennetts : an acting family /
"The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard�...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard's fame was eclipsed by that of his daughters, Constance and Joan, who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and found major success there. Constance became the highest-paid actress of the early 1930s, earning as much as 30,000 a week in melodramas. Later she reinvented herself as a comedienne in the classic come |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 530 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-513) and index. |
| ISBN: | 081317192X 9780813171920 9780813138183 0813138183 1283232952 9781283232951 9786613232953 6613232955 |