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Actors are caught in the bumpy transition to talking pictures; a Spoof of the early days of "talkie" films.

He became a #1 box office attraction, recorded a #1 hit song, and survived a major sex scandal--all by the time he was 25. Five years later, new stars had been developed, and Tab Hunter found himself scrambling to find work, struggling just to survive. Yet survive he did, re-creating himself as a cult star and film producer in a career that spans five decades and more than fifty films. This book tells what it felt like to be created, packaged, and...

From Theda Bara to Mary Pickford to Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep, women stars have dominated films and thereby the popular imagination of America. By the sheer force of their presence or talent, they helped create American film - as well as our enduring images of womanhood. With wit, intelligence, and panache, Ethan Mordden follows the history of the female movie star from the days before there was a Hollywood up to the present: the images they projected...

A biography of Dorothy Dandridge, leading lady in the successful 1950s movie, Carmen Jones. The first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar--she lost to Grace Kelly of The Country Girl--Dandridge also starred in the controversial film, Island in the Sun, Hollywood's try at a black-white romance without anyone actually kissing.

Best-selling autobiography of Hollywood actress Shelley Winters, perhaps best known for her Oscar-award-winning roles in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK and A PATCH OF BLUE. The electrifying and outspoken memoirs of an earthy and unusually intelligent actress. In a book as gutsy as the lady herself, Shelley Winters tells of the street-smart kid from Brooklyn who crashed Hollywood as a harem-girl sexpot. The Blonde Bombshell fought to make it as a serious...