Description |
xii, 296 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 285-289. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
The star is born -- The silent women -- The first star and the greatest star -- Forward to yesterday -- The Pope's wife, the doomed harlot, and the loyal shopgirl -- Women's women: the ladies -- Men's women: the harlots -- No one's woman -- Comics I -- The evergreen moralist -- Fighters -- Dame Camp -- Maidens and pinups -- The ultimate in it -- Comics II -- Musical women -- Persons; or, all women are whores. |
Subject |
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Motion picture actors and actresses. |
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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ISBN |
0312550499 |
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0312550502 paperback |
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