The Girls: Sappho Goes to HollywoodMacmillan, 19 de set. 2001 - 464 pàgines Diana McLellan reveals the complex and intimate connections that roiled behind the public personae of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, and the women who loved them. Private correspondence, long-secret FBI files, and troves of unpublished documents reveal a chain of lesbian affairs that moved from the theater world of New York, through the heights of chic society, to embed itself in the power structure of the movie business. The Girls serves up a rich stew of film, politics, sexuality, psychology, and stardom. |
Continguts
All About Alla | 3 |
Enter Mercedes | 16 |
Alla Meets Celluloid and Eva | 21 |
Natacha and Alla and Rudy | 26 |
Two Disappointments | 31 |
A Grand Amour | 34 |
Divided Loyalties | 38 |
A Moral Crisis | 46 |
The New Man in Town | 205 |
Travels with Greta | 209 |
Otto Among the Girls | 213 |
The Camille Confrontation | 219 |
A Social Triumph a Desert Drought and a French Connection | 223 |
Paleness Poison And a Summer of Love | 229 |
Role Hunting | 234 |
Love Light and Otherwise | 237 |
THE SECRET | 55 |
A Swede Steams In | 57 |
Everyone Does it | 67 |
Greta and John | 70 |
Nobody Will Say Anything | 73 |
The Subtle Salka | 77 |
Mercedess Star Trek | 82 |
A Role Model and Fifi | 89 |
The End of Silence | 94 |
Love and a Secret Consort | 99 |
HIDDEN AGENDAS | 115 |
The Garbo Project | 117 |
The GarboMercedes Affair | 122 |
Ottos New Job | 130 |
Tallulah Takes Aim | 133 |
Miss Garbos New York Sojourn | 141 |
Tallulah Makes Her Mark | 144 |
Flirting | 152 |
Misbehavior and a Cat Party | 158 |
The Christina Crisis | 161 |
The MercedesMarlene Affair | 163 |
A European Interlude | 169 |
Bonjour Tristesse | 171 |
Marlenes Mysterious Voyage | 176 |
Image Problems and an Accident | 184 |
A Change of Air | 189 |
Of Emeralds and Empresses | 194 |
Another Salka Coup | 199 |
THE CELL AND THE SEWING CIRCLE | 203 |
Foreign Affairs | 243 |
Russian Accents | 251 |
A Hollywood Sea Change | 259 |
Love Games | 270 |
Politics and Players | 275 |
Changing Partners | 283 |
The TwoFaced Woman | 287 |
COMBAT | 293 |
Forward March | 295 |
Tallulah and Lizabeth | 307 |
Changing Roles in the Ladies Auxiliary | 309 |
War and Peace and the Great Reunion | 317 |
LOVE IN A COLDWAR CLIMATE | 325 |
La Vie en Rose | 327 |
Settling Down | 331 |
The Unfinished Business | 335 |
Dietrich Laughs Last | 340 |
On the Air | 347 |
The End of Otto | 350 |
The Closet Slams Shut | 354 |
Questions of Identity | 360 |
The Songbird Solution | 363 |
A Curtain Falls | 366 |
The End of the Joyless Street | 375 |
Afterword | 380 |
Notes | 383 |
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