Gloria Swanson : Ready for Her Close-Up /

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This book shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Welsch, Tricia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Swanson, Gloria, > 1897-1983
Swanson, Gloria, > 1897-1983.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
PERFORMING ARTS > Acting & Auditioning.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Glory
  • Funny girl
  • Triangle
  • The lions' den
  • In the family way
  • The great moment
  • Her gilded cage
  • East coaster
  • French idyll
  • American royalty
  • Declaration of independence
  • Let it rain
  • The swamp
  • People will talk
  • The crash
  • Mad about the boy
  • Perfect misunderstanding
  • Reinventing herself
  • "You used to be big"
  • Dressing the part
  • Not ready for her retrospective
  • Last act.

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