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Vixens, floozies, and molls : 28 actresses of late 1920s and 1930s Hollywood

Title
Vixens, floozies, and molls : 28 actresses of late 1920s and 1930s Hollywood / by Hans J. Wollstein.
Author
Wollstein, Hans J.
Publication
Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 1999.

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viii, 274 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
  • They were everywhere, at least on the silver screen of the 1920s and 1930s: vamps and vixens with a dangerous talent for slinking away with a scene. Bad girl roles abounded, and most actresses played at least one. But for a small group of actresses, the spike heel was a perfect fit, and they wore it, over and over again. Because censorship required that goodness prevail, the bad girl was often a supporting or secondary role.
  • As a result, few of these actresses are well known today, and the viewer who catches one of their brassy performances is left to wonder: Who was that lady I saw last night? That was no lady, of course. That was the gangster's moll, the floozy, the nasty debutante. That was Hollywood's bad girl - and this book tells the stories of 28 actresses who brought her to life.
Subject
  • Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
  • Actresses > United States > Biography
  • Femmes fatales in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Hollywood's Other Women -- 2. Olga Baclanova -- 3. Binnie Barnes -- 4. Evelyn Brent -- 5. Dorothy Burgess -- 6. Juliette Compton -- 7. Katherine DeMille -- 8. Claire Dodd -- 9. Mary Duncan -- 10. Josephine Dunn -- 11. Noel Francis -- 12. Wynne Gibson -- 13. Bernadene Hayes -- 14. Beulah Hutton -- 15. Rita La Roy -- 16. Nina Mae McKinney -- 17. Sari Maritza -- 18. Natalie Moorhead -- 19. Esther Muir -- 20. Ona Munson -- 21. Vivienne Osborne -- 22. Gail Patrick -- 23. Dorothy Revier -- 24. Gale Sondergaard -- 25. Lilyan Tashman -- 26. Verree Teasdale -- 27. Helen Vinson -- 28. Thelma White -- 29. Anna May Wong.
ISBN
0786405651 (illustrated casebound : alk. paper)
LCCN
98045591
OCLC
  • 39930475
  • ocm39930475
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries