Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, and Gary Cooper-Glamour in a Golden Age presents original essays from eminent film scholars that analyze movie stars of the 1930s against the background of contemporary American cultural history. Stardom is approached as an effect of, and influence on, the particular historical and industrial contexts that enabled these actors and actresses to be discovered, featured in films, publicized, and to become recognized and admired-sometimes even notorious-parts of the cultural landscape. Using archival and popular material, including fan and mass market magazines, other promotional and publicity material, and of course films themselves, contributors also discuss other artists who were incredibly popular at the time, among them Ann Harding, Ruth Chatterton, Nancy Carroll, Kay Francis, and Constance Bennett.

In photographs only seen briefly as part of studio press kits distributed upon release of a new film, these long-lost stills of Hollywood’s leading ladies have been reverently rendered into color portraits that not only evoke a treasured past of beauty and glamour, but also seem comfortably familiar to the contemporary eye. These posed photos have been chosen not only for their bespoke sensuality, but also for how the discrete addition of color has elevated a black and white still to a kind of artistic grace, prompting rediscovery of classic Hollywood’s most beautiful women. Actresses portrayed here include Julie Andrews, Anna Mae Wong, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, Carroll Baker, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Angie Dickinson, Eva Marie Saint, and many others.

Orphaned at fifteen, Jane Hall was a "literary prodigy" according to the press. Follow the adventures of this ambitious young tomboy from an Arizona mining town as she becomes a Depression-era debutante, a successful author of magazine fiction, and a screenwriter at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood's most glamorous studio in the 1930s. A true story

Relax and enjoy The coloring book features Wladyslaw T. Benda's illustrations of exotic and mysterious girls that graced the covers of famous American art deco magazines, such as Life, Hearst's International, Theatre Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, etc. In the 1920s every magazine sought the look of the American Beauty that W. T. Benda (born in Poznan, Poland 1873 - died in New York City 1948) was famous for. Features: 38 light grayscale pictures all full-page images are single sided medium weight acid-free paper suitable for colored pencils, markers, chalk pastels, gel pens, aquarellable pencils, markers etc. all images are perfectly centered and fit exquisitely into a frame: 8"x10" all images are easy to remove by cutting along the line indicated on the page GREAT FUN & ENJOYMENT for all skill levels printed in USA with love Benda gained fame as a leading artist in the golden age of American illustration during the golden age of Hollywood glamour. He specialized in girl's and woman's portraits with exotic sensual features. He also became an acclaimed designer of theatrical costumes and masks. Benda's fame as a world-class mask creator even took him to Hollywood. In 1932 the artist created the original mask design for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's adventure movie "The Mask of Fu Manchu".

Sixteen movie stars, each with a glittering costume, include Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor.

During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become "decorative actresses" appearing scantily clad on film and television. This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories through individual biographical profiles, photographs, lists of major credits and, frequently, in-depth personal interviews. Included are Carol Wayne, Edy Williams, Inga Neilsen, Thordis Brandt, Jo Collins, Phyllis Davis, Melodie Johnson, and many equally unforgettable faces of sixties Hollywood.

This book, Hollywood Deco Fashions of the 1920s, traces the experiences of a young French woman along the path she followed in 1919 from a very small village in the south of France to the grandeur of Hollywood’s motion picture industry during its most electrifying and dazzling period—its golden age of the 1920s. Travel companion to a wealthy woman, Marianne Dunat’s rapture when experiencing the elegant fashion shows in New York and Paris evolved into a deep desire to develop her innate artistic skills. These skills were honed at a prestigious Hollywood fashion-design school to a level that eased her entry into designing costumes at one of Hollywood’s most notable motion picture studios of the early 1920s. The reader will be guided along artistic learning curves beginning with the most elementary form of sketching, to portraying in great detail the rudimentary components of the female head and body, and to the creation of exquisite apparel. The extensive span of Ms. Dunat’s artistry is self-evident and should be of significant appreciation by a wide audience, particularly that segment of the populace having a bias for chic apparel that symbolizes Hollywood’s grandest epoch—the 1920s. The illustrations in this work in conjunction with the story line establish its uniqueness in the arena of 1920s’ fashion design.