Kashner, Sam, <br/><br/>
The bad and the beautiful :  Hollywood in the fifties / 
Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair. 
 - 380 páginas :  ilustraciones 
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía. 
<br/><br/>1. Wink, titter, and flirt: Confidential magazine -- 2. The lavender closet: Bill Tilden, Lizabeth Scott, Tab Hunter, and Noël Coward -- 3. Alvah Bessie´s dream -- 4. High school confidential: Manny Robinson, Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Jr., and John Barrymore, Jr. -- 5. Requiem for a rebel: Nicholas Ray and the doomed trinity -- 6. Sacred and profane: Hollywood´s religious revival, The Robe, and Richard Burton -- 7. The artist and ´Charlie Movie Star´: Douglas Sirk and the making of Rock Hudson -- 8. Legal aliens: expats, artists, and Oscar Levant -- 9. Love and hate: A Place in the Sun and The Night of the Hunter -- 10. Bell, book, and scandal: Kim Novak and Sammy Davis, Jr. -- 11. A cookie full of arsenic: Sweet Smelll of Success -- 12. The housewife and the sweater girl: How Peyton Place saved Lana Turner -- 13. Lana, the sequel: Imitation of Life -- 14. Sheer bitchery: Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, and Sheilah Graham -- 15. The dark at the top of the stairs: William Inge´s American dreams -- 16. The waxworks: Mae West, Gloria Swanson, and Sunset Boulevard. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393043215 9780393043211 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Películas cinematográficas.--Historia.--Los Angeles (California)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.430979494  / K19b 2002