Silent stars / by Basinger, Jeanine

Table of Contents: “…Flappers: Colleen Moore and Clara Bow --…”

Dorothy Arzner : interviews /

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Sex goddesses of the silent screen, by Zierold, Norman J.

Table of Contents: “…--The girl with the bee-stung lips: Mae Murray.--The it girl: Clara Bow.--Conclusion: the others.…”

Elinor Glyn as novelist, moviemaker, glamour icon and businesswoman / by Barnett, Vincent L., Weedon, Alexis

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a writer: Glyn's early British career -- Transatlantic girl: publishing in America -- Hollywood star: negotiating the rights to film adaptations -- Three weeks: novel, play and film -- Contracts in conflict: the royalties received from Glyn's films -- It: novella, film and Clara Bow -- Back to Britain: Glyn in the 1930s.…”

Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman / by Barnett, Vincent L.

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a writer: Glyn's early British career -- Transatlantic girl: publishing in America -- Hollywood star: negotiating the rights to film adaptations -- Three weeks: novel, play and film -- Contracts in conflict: the royalties received from Glyn's films -- It: novella, film and Clara Bow -- Back to Britain: Glyn in the 1930s.…”
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The Role of women in the movies

Idols of modernity : movie stars of the 1920s /

Table of Contents: “…Douglas Fairbanks : king of Hollywood -- Buster Keaton : comic invention and the art of moving pictures -- The Talmadge sisters : a forgotten filmmaking dynasty -- Rudolph Valentino : Italian American -- An appetite for living : Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow -- Greta Garbo : fashioning a star image -- Anna May Wong : toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom -- Emil Jannings : translating the star -- Al Jolson : the man who changed the movies forever -- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood : Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry -- Marie Dressler : thief of the talkies -- In the wings.…”
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Idols of modernity : movie stars of the 1920s /

Table of Contents: “…Douglas Fairbanks : king of Hollywood -- Buster Keaton : comic invention and the art of moving pictures -- The Talmadge sisters : a forgotten filmmaking dynasty -- Rudolph Valentino : Italian American -- An appetite for living : Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow -- Greta Garbo : fashioning a star image -- Anna May Wong : toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom -- Emil Jannings : translating the star -- Al Jolson : the man who changed the movies forever -- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood : Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry -- Marie Dressler : thief of the talkies -- In the wings.…”
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It / by Roach, Joseph R., 1947-

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Icons of American popular culture : from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez / by Cottrell, Robert C., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Griffith and Ernest Hemingway -- Five The "New Woman" and the "New Negro" -- Clara Bow and Bessie Smith -- Six Voices of Radical Culture -- Margaret Bourke-White and Woody Guthrie -- Seven American Heroes -- Hank Greenberg and Edward R. …”
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Tomboys : a literary and cultural history / by Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…and My Antonia -- The tomboy shifts from feminist to flapper : Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula -- The tomboy turns freakishly queer and queerly freakish : Carson McCullers's The member of the wedding -- The tomboy becomes the "odd girl out" : Ann Bannon's Women in the shadows -- The tomboy returns to Hollywood : Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper moon -- Epilogue: The tomboy finally "comes into the light" : transformations to white feminism, the emergence of whiteness studies and the end of racialized white tomboyism.…”

Tomboys : a literary and cultural history / by Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…and My Antonia -- The tomboy shifts from feminist to flapper : Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula -- The tomboy turns freakishly queer and queerly freakish : Carson McCullers's The member of the wedding -- The tomboy becomes the "odd girl out" : Ann Bannon's Women in the shadows -- The tomboy returns to Hollywood : Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper moon -- Epilogue: The tomboy finally "comes into the light" : transformations to white feminism, the emergence of whiteness studies and the end of racialized white tomboyism.…”
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Inventing the It girl : how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood / by Hallett, Hilary A., 1968-

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim : a Writer in Early Hollywood / by Maas, Frederica Sagor, 1900-2012

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Victor Fleming : an American movie master / by Sragow, Michael

Table of Contents: “…-- The importance of shooting Doug -- In Manhattan for the Great War -- Filming the conquering hero : with Wilson in Europe -- The importance of directing Doug -- Scaling Paramount Pictures -- Courage and Clara Bow -- A lost epic : The rough riders -- From The way of all flesh to Abie's Irish rose -- Creating Gary Cooper -- A woman's film and a man's adventure at Fox -- Guiding Gable in Red dust -- Pioneering the screwball comedy : Jean Harlow in Bombshell -- Treasure Island -- Introducing Henry Fonda, Farewell to Jean Harlow -- Bagging game on Safari, losing The good earth -- Spencer Tracy and Captains courageous -- Test pilot -- Salvaging The great waltz -- Putting Oz into The wizard of Oz -- Saving Tara and Gone with the wind -- Dr. …”
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Hollywood and the female body : a history of idolization and objectification / by Handzo, Stephen, 1944-