Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood
by Emily W. Leider
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0520253205
- ISBN 13
- 9780520253209
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011 University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 2011. Hardcover. 2nd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bump to tail; small smudge on textblock fore edge. DJ: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; light rubbing to panels. Tan paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 409 pp 8vo. From the beginning, Myrna Loy’s screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nora Charles, wife to dapper detective William Powell in The Thin Man, offers an unprecedented picture of her life and an extraordinary movie career that spanned six decades. Opening with Loy’s rough-and-tumble upbringing in Montana, the book takes us to Los Angeles in the 1920s, where Loy’s striking looks caught the eye of Valentino, through the silent and early sound era to her films of the thirties, when Loy became a top box office draw, and to her robust post–World War II career. Throughout the author illuminates the actress’s friendships with luminaries such as Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Joan Crawford and her collaborations with the likes of John Barrymore, David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, and William Wyler, among many others. This highly engaging biography offers a fascinating slice of studio era history and gives us the first full picture of a very private woman who has often been overlooked despite her tremendous star power. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016741
- Title
- Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood
- Author
- Emily W. Leider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520253205
- ISBN 13
- 9780520253209
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Myrna Loy, Hollywood, actress, female actress, silent movies, talkies, King Kong, Thin Man Series, Hollywood movies, movie history,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Biographies;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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