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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 9
THE PROTOTYPES 19
The Sennett Stable, William S. Hart, Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks
THE TWENTIES 39
Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Mae Murray, Clara Bow, Wallace Reid, Norma Talmadge, Dolores Del Rio, Dolores Costello, Norma Shearer, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney, Erich Von Stroheim, Tom Mix, Some Lovers , John Gilbert, Greta Garbo
THE COMEDIANS 89
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Harold Lloyd, The Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Mickey Mouse
THE THIRTIES 113
Mae West, Dick Powell, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Marlene Dietrich, The Monsters, Marie Dressier, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Paul Munij, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Charles Boyer, Carole Lombard, Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Tyrone Power, Fredric March, Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn, The Athletes, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Orson Welles
FIVE HEROES 183
Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, James Steivart
THE FORTIES 211
Hedy Lamarr, Les Girls, Rita Hay worth, Greer Gar son, Margaret O'Brien, Van Johnson, June Ally son, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck
THE FIFTIES 243
Alan Ladd, Kim Novak, William H olden, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Charleton Heston, Rock Hudson, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Taylor
THE END 282
INDEX 284