Fast-Talking Dames (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Maria DiBattista
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Film
- Principal Characters: Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunne, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck
- Genres: Nonfiction, Arts
- Subjects: Language or languages, Acting or actors, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1930’s, Women, Films, movies, or motion pictures
The musicals, crime melodramas, and, especially, romantic comedies created by Hollywood in the 1930’s and 1940’s, the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, have remained unmatched for their glamour and style. American films of this period had great limitations placed upon them by a highly regulated studio system and by the censorship of the Production Code. Despite these limitations—some would claim even because of them—Hollywood’s most talented screenwriters, directors, actors, and technicians produced several hundred wonderfully sophisticated films.
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