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Marie Dressler : The Unlikeliest Star /

"" She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To movie audiences suffering the hardships of the Great Depression, she was Everywoman, and in the early 1930s her charming mixture of...

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Autor principal: Lee, Betty, 1921-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; 1 Birthday Wishes; 2 First Taste of Drama; 3 On the Road; 4 Champion of the Underdog; 5 Entrepreneurial Spirit; 6 Theatrical Aristocrat; 7 Sunny Jim; 8 The Working Girl; 9 The Height of Her Power; 10 Marie Dressier's Merry Gambol; 11 Mix-ups and Movies; 12 War Work; 13 Striking for the Ponies; 14 Marie's Nightmare; 15 Door to the Future; 16 Queen Marie; 17 The Little Doctor; 18 The Treatment; 19 Prosperity; 20 God's Exhibit A to the World; 21 Mayer's Marathon; 22 And to All, Goodnight; 23 Flutter of Doubt. 
505 0 |a Marie Dressier FilmographyNotes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index. 
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