||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| lively, fun & informative|By Zangiku|like all Basinger books, positively stuffed with info, this one on the old Hollywood studio system and how it sucked in, chewed up and spit out the "stars" it manufactured, including Typrone Power, Errol Flynn, Deanna Durbin, Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, William Powell and others. lots of good photos, fashion, trivia as well as serious biog||“Startling. . . . An enormous new book of star lore . . . Basinger nestles with almost delicious comfort into the intimate procedures of star manufacture.” |—The New Yorker||“Luxurious, often delicious. . . . Ms. Basinger tells
From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars.
With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio “star machine” worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn't, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the system: the &ldqu...
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