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Fast-talking dames
- Author
- DiBattista, Maria, 1947-
- Title
- Fast-talking dames / Maria DiBattista.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.
- Description
- xvi, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-357) and index.
- Contents
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- Fast-talking dames
- Female Pygmalions
- Blonde bombshells: Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, and Ginger Rogers
- My favorite brunettes: Myrna Loy, Jean Arthur, and Claudette Colbert
- Missing links: Bringing up baby
- The lady-dame: Irene Dunne and The awful truth
- Garbo's laugh
- Female rampant: His girl Friday
- The lady Eve and the female con
- Conclusion: blondes born yesterday.
- Subject headings
- Women in motion pictures. Women--United States--Language.
- ISBN
- 0300088159 (alk. paper)
Holdings
- Library
- Blmgtn - Auxiliary Library Facility
- Call Number
- PN1995.9.W6 D53 2001
- Location
- Auxiliary Library Facility - Stacks