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C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Stardom in the 1930s 1 ADRIENNE L. McLEAN 1 Not of Hollywood: Ruth Chatterton,Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Kay Francis, and Nancy Carroll 18 MARY DESJARDINS 2 Shirley Temple: Making Dreams Come True 44 KATHRYN FULLER-SEELEY 3 Gary Cooper: Rugged Elegance 66 COREY K. CREEKMUR 4 Bette Davis:Worker and Queen 84 LUCY FISCHER 5 Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: The Sexy Hausfrau versus the Swedish Sphinx 108 ALEXANDER DOTY 6 Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford: Rivals at the Glamour Factory 129 DAVID M. LUGOWSKI 7 Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: Romancing through History 153 INA RAE HARK 8 Jean Harlow:Tragic Blonde 174 SUSAN OHMER 9 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Modernizing Class 196 ADAM KNEE 10 Myrna Loy and William Powell:The Perfect Screen Couple 220 JAMES CASTONGUAY 11 Clark Gable:The King of Hollywood 245 CHRISTINE BECKER In the Wings 267 ADRIENNE L. McLEAN Works Cited 273 Contributors 281 Index 285 ★★★★★★★★★★ ✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩ ...

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