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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Thirty years ago American movies were entering on a new decade of improved cinematic technology films were longer screens were be- coming larger and sound levels were deeper and louder. The fifties were also a time when new and exciting stars were appearing on the Hollywood horizon: Marlon Brando James Dean Natalie Wood Elvis Presley and of course the incomparable Marilyn Monroe. This book takes us back to that remarkable decade and the fabu- lous faces that lit up International movie screens in such memorable films as The Wild One Rebel Without a Cause A Streetcar Named Desire An American in Paris Singin’ in the Rain and A Star Is Born. Film historian John Kobal has assembled a striking treasury of glamorous publicity portraits of 114 major Hollywood stars (163 photos in all). In addition to the new stars of the fifties the collection also includes many es tablished stars who were still going strong in that decade: Marlene Dietrich Tyrone Power Joan Crawford Bette Davis Gary Cooper Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor.