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Author Turk, Edward Baron.

Title Hollywood diva : a biography of Jeanette MacDonald / Edward Baron Turk.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 MACDONALD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B MACDONALD, JEANETTE    Check Shelf
Description xix, 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-430) and index.
Contents 1: Born to sing -- "Now everybody's got to clap!" -- Scandals -- Twinkling stars and four-leaf clovers -- A fair princess on Broadway -- 2: Lingerie queen of the talkies -- Lubitsch and Chevalier -- Only a nose -- Vive la France! -- Mr. Mayer and the widow -- 3: Hollywood diva -- An all-American team -- The iron butterfly -- Hollywood diva -- Middlebrow muse -- The soprano militant -- Battles operatic -- A graceful exit -- Distress signals -- "Carve your name in human hearts" -- "Just the echo of a sigh".
Subject MacDonald, Jeanette, 1903-1965.
Sopranos (Singers) -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0520212029 cloth alkaline paper
0520222539 paperback
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