A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler by Victoria Sturtevant

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

Women & Film History International

Victoria Sturtevant

194 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art autobiography biography history informative inspiring medium-paced
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In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pou...

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