Acting for the Silent Screen: Film Actors and Aspiration Between the Wars by Chris O'Rourke

Acting for the Silent Screen: Film Actors and Aspiration Between the Wars

Cinema and Society

Chris O'Rourke

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nonfiction art history
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A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some ...

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