Hollywood Players, the Thirties
by James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard
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To be in the movies in the 1930s was to be in the right place at the right time. It was the heyday of exciting Hollywood glitter and glamour. This fact-filled volume of 71 stalwarts from Hollywood’s Golden Age brings it all back in vivid detail. Nearly six dozen important actors and actresses from that era—all important screen players but not A-list major stars—are given their proper due in individual chapters. Among those included in this volume are Eddie Albert, Robert Armstrong, Lynn Bari, Binnie Barnes, Louise Beavers, Bruce Cabot, Helen Chandler, Mae Clarke, Buster Crabbe, Constance Cummings, Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy, James Dunn, Ann Dvorak, Sally Eilers, Frances Farmer, Glenda Farrell, Stepin Fetchit, Preston Foster, Skeets Gallagher, William Gargan, Wynn Gibson, Bonita Granville, Phillips Holmes, Josephine Hutchinson, Allan Jones, Victor Jory, Paul Kelly, Elissa Landi, Francis Lederer, Margaret Lindsay, Anita Louise, Paul Lukas, David Manners, Burgess Meredith, Dickie Moore, Chester Morris, Jack Oakie, Gail Patrick, Gene Raymond, Gilbert Roland, Cesar Romeo, Simone Simon, Penny Singleton, Anna Sten, Gloria Stuart, Genevieve Tobin, Lee Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Jane Withers, Anna May Wong, and Fay Wray.
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Two hundred fifteen photographs illustrate profiles of seventy-one actors and actresses, including Eddie Albert, Cesar Romero, and Jane Wyatt, whose screen careers began during the thirties
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