Larger than life : movie stars of the 1950s /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Star decades: American culture/American cinema.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / R. Barton Palmer
- Montgomery Clift : Hollywood pseudohomosexual / Tison Pugh, Barry Sandler
- Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck : organization men / R. Barton Palmer
- James Stewart and James Dean : the darkness within / Murray Pomerance
- James Mason : a star is born bigger than life / Amy Lawrence
- Reflexivity and metaperformance : Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Kim Novak / Matthew Solomon
- Audrey Hepburn : the film star as event / William A. Brown
- Doris Day and Rock Hudson : the girl next door and the brawny he-man / Foster Hirsch
- Marlon Brando : actor, star, liar / Susan White
- Jerry Lewis : from Hamlet to clown / Frank Krutnik
- Judy Holliday : the hungry star / Pamela Robertson Wojcik
- What a swell party this was : Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra / Adrienne L. McLean
- In the wings / R. Barton Palmer