DiBattista, Maria.

Fast-Talking Dames. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (382 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. A Comic History of Dames -- 1 Fast-Talking Dames -- 2 Female Pygmalions -- Part Two. Hot Heiresses and Working Girls -- 3 Blonde Bombshells: Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, and Ginger Rogers -- 4 My Favorite Brunettes: Myrna Loy, Jean Arthur, and Claudette Colbert -- Part Three. The Grande Dames -- 5 Missing Links: Bringing Up Baby -- 6 The Lady-Dame: Irene Dunne and The Awful Truth -- 7 Garbo's Laugh -- 8 Female Rampant: His Girl Friday -- 9 The Lady Eve and the Female Con -- Conclusion: Blondes Born Yesterday -- Notes -- Index.

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9780300133882


Women in motion pictures.
Women -- United States -- Language.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.W6D53 2001

791.4302809