[nice clean book, essentially as new, top front corner lightly bumped; the jacket shows just a trace of surface wear]. (B&W photographs) The only major biography of one of Hollywood's most luminous actresses of the 1940s. "We follow Linda's path from her Texas childhood and first public success, through her contract with work Twentieth Century-Fox in the heyday of the big studio system. [The author] documents Darnell's discovery and marriages, the adoption of her daughter, the making of many well-known films, and her emotional difficulties, leading up to her tragic death by fire. This is t... View More...
[nice clean copy, virtually as new with faint handling wear only]. Trade PB (B(&W photographs) INSCRIBED to noted film director Vincent Sherman and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A history of the golden age of the Hollywood studio system, drawing heavily on the hundreds of oral history interviews conducted by the author at SMU. Signed by Author View More...