BRIDE OF GOLDEN IMAGES: ESSAYS ON STARS OF THE 1930s-60s by Eve Golden
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Jean Arthur • Warner Baxter • Constance Bennett • Joan Blondell • Jack Buchanan • Billie Burke • Ina Claire • Claudette Colbert • Joan Crawford • Dorothy Dell • Marlene Dietrich • Margaret Dumont • Vivian & Rosetta Duncan • Jimmy Durante • Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards • Peg Entwistle • Greta Garbo • Betty Grable • Charlotte Greenwood • Daisy & Violet Hilton • Judy Holliday • Phillips Holmes • Edward Everett Horton • Peggy Hopkins Joyce • Helen Kane • Winnie Lightner • Ben Lyon • Jayne Mansfield • Marilyn Miller • Carmen Miranda • Marilyn Monroe • Renate Müller • Jack Oakie • Lyda Roberti • Norma Shearer • Barbara Stanwyck • Inger Stevens • Sharon Tate • Thelma Todd • Judy Tyler • Lupe Velez • Alice White
At last, the long-awaited sequel to Eve Golden's 2001 silent-movie compilation Golden Images! In Bride of Golden Images, the famed film historian and biographer takes on the stars of the 1930s-60s. Here are the superstars, the second bananas, the character actors, the starlets. With a take-no-prisoners approach and a quick wit, Golden offers brisk biographies of-and critiques on-everyone from Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo to Jack Oakie and Lyda Roberti. Originally published in Classic Images and Films of the Golden Age, these articles have all been re-edited, researched and written.