American classic screen profiles

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Indhold: Actors (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle -- George Bancroft -- Warner Baxter -- Ralph Bellamy -- The film career of George M. Cohan -- Boris Karloff -- Robert Redford -- Mickey Rooney -- Kidflicks : the western films of Fred Thomson -- Cornel Wilde). Actresses (Dear Beulah : reflections on the long and distinguished career of Beulah Bondi -- Surviving mother Hollywood : Diana Serra Cary ("Baby Peggy") speaks out -- Charlotte Henry's adventures in wonderland : the brief but memorable career of a Hollywood "Alice". Siren song : the tragedy of Barbara La Marr -- A countess in Hollywood : Elissa Landi -- The birth of a sex symbol : Jayne Mansfield -- Marilyn -- Eleanor Powell -- Natalie Wood). Hollywood pairs (Bette Davis and Claude Rains -- Cukor and Hepburn -- Making movies with James Cagney). Behind the camera : the directors (Charles T. Barton -- The elusive Cecil B. Demille -- Joseph H. Lewis -- Seastrom). Behind the camera : the craftsmen (Walter Plunkett : dressing right for Gone with the wind -- "Mr. Electricity" : the multi-volted career of Kenneth Strickfaden -- Coming to light : the celebrity portraits of Orval Hixon).;Samling af artikler tidligere publiceret i tidsskriftet American classic screen