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A Great Big Girl Like Me : The Films of Marie Dressler /

In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler often played ugly duckli...

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Main Author: Sturtevant, Victoria, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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