[Get free] The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s
| #2059481 in Books | 1990-09-26 | 1990-09-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.75 x1.00l, | File Name: 0394511875 | 285 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Hollywood Romatic Comedy, Right-On|By R. Bono|This book is focused upon the emergence of the female star personality, and how the directors integrated and evolved their personas into romantic comedies, filled with prescient social meaning. I say emergence, because actresses like men, had to fight for status and recognition in a Hollywood that was literally inventing itself. Ke|From Publishers Weekly|Depression-era romantic film comedies starring Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers and Barbara Stanwyck are enthrallingly appraised here by social historian Kendall ( Wh
In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring in them-are the focus of Kendall's The Runaway Bride, a look at the films that mirrored the climate of the Great Depression while at the same time helping Ame...
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