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“…Joan Crawford's march to stardom…”
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Subjects: “…performing arts, film, video, media, media studies, communications, american studies, american culture, american cinema, 1920s, 20s, roaring twenties, film studies, motion picture, film industry, entertainment, hollywood, old hollywood, film studio, cinematographer, editor, screenwriter, set designer, celebrity, charlie chaplin, mary pickford, joan crawford, greta garbo, rudolph valentino, race film, blockbuster, classic hollywood, classic film, melodrama, western, historical epic, romantic comedy, slapstick, science fiction, fantasy.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Raison d'Etre; 1 Moment of Decision; 2 Unknown Territory; 3 Meeting Hedda; 4 Hollywood-First Time; 6 Hollywood-Second Time; 5 Moving Left; 7 Moving Up; 8 The Hard Way; 9 Bette Davis; 10 In Our Time; 11 Midway; 12 Errol Flynn; 13 London; 14 Joan Crawford; 15 Freelancing; 16 Red Scare; 17 Back to Warner's; 18 Twilight Years; Postscript; Filmography; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford: Rivals at the Glamour Factory; 7. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: Romancing through History; 8. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- A star is born : Joan Crawford and Our dancing daughters -- "Astonishing elegance" : William Wellman, Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery, and Beggars of life -- "Time was his; he owned it" : Erich von Stroheim and The wedding march -- "I have a special confidence in you" : Lillian Gish, Victor Sjöström, and The wind -- Partners in Perversity : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and West of Zanzibar -- "To reach for the moon one last time" : Douglas Fairbanks and The iron mask -- Twenty-eight other notable U.S. …”

Table of Contents: “…The actress plays her part / Bette Davis -- A life on film / Mary Astor -- The player : a profile of an art / Joan Crawford -- Notes on film acting / Hume Cronyn -- The many-splendored actor / James Stewart -- Reflections on forty years of make-believe / Henry Fonda -- Interview with the actress / Gloria Swanson -- Dialogue on screen acting / Katharine Hepburn -- Walking the Hollywood color line / Sidney Poitier -- When women were in the movies / Meryl Streep -- "Commercial" isn't a dirty word, any more than "comedy" / Jeff Daniels -- Conversation with the actor / Jack Lemmon -- The Playboy interview / Marlon Brando -- Dialogue with the actor / Robert De Niro -- Interview with the actor / Dustin Hoffman -- "The bird is on his own" / Jack Nicholson -- "Acting has to be about something else" / Lindsay Crouse.…”