Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and CultureWalter Conser University Press of Kentucky, 12 sept 2010 - 390 páginas " In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are revealed for the first time. Garson combined an everywoman quality with grace, charm, and refinement. She won the Academy Award in 1941 for her role in Mrs. Miniver , and for the next decade she reigned as the queen of MGM. Co-star Christopher Plummer remembered, ""Here was a siren who had depth, strength, dignity, and humor who could inspire great trust, suggest deep intellect and whose misty languorous eyes melted your heart away!"" Garson earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, and fourteen of her films premiered at Radio City Music Hall, playing for a total of eighty-four weeks--a record never equaled by any other actress. She was a central figure in the golden age of the studios, working with legendary performers Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, Debbie Reynolds, and Walter Pidgeon. Garson's experiences offer a fascinating glimpse at the studio system in the years when stars were closely linked to a particular studio and moguls such as L.B. Mayer broke or made careers. With the benefit of exclusive access to studio production files, personal letters and diaries, and the cooperation of her family, Troyan explores the triumphs and tragedies of her personal life, a story more colorful than any role she played on screen. |
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... Civil War to Civil Rights Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century David Stricklin God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism Barry Hankins The ...
... Civil War to Civil Rights Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century David Stricklin God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism Barry Hankins The ...
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... in Recent Southern Culture: Has It Done What the Civil Rights Movement Couldn't Do? 354 Samuel S. Hill Copyrights and Permissions 369 List of Contributors 371 Index 375 introduCtion Walter h. ConSer Jr. and rodger M. payne Crossroads.
... in Recent Southern Culture: Has It Done What the Civil Rights Movement Couldn't Do? 354 Samuel S. Hill Copyrights and Permissions 369 List of Contributors 371 Index 375 introduCtion Walter h. ConSer Jr. and rodger M. payne Crossroads.
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... civil rights movement. their concerns were often as theological as they were academic: for example, how should the “churches” respond to the rapidly changing society? Samuel S. Hill's Southern Churches in Crisis (1966) captured this ...
... civil rights movement. their concerns were often as theological as they were academic: for example, how should the “churches” respond to the rapidly changing society? Samuel S. Hill's Southern Churches in Crisis (1966) captured this ...
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... civil rights causes or conservative new Right issues, and gaining in economic clout as the region's economy boomed in the years of the Sunbelt. Similarly, despite his early new Age instincts, Presley at the same time held fast to ...
... civil rights causes or conservative new Right issues, and gaining in economic clout as the region's economy boomed in the years of the Sunbelt. Similarly, despite his early new Age instincts, Presley at the same time held fast to ...
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... civil religion, drawing from and attempting to transcend sentiments rooted in biracial southern antecedents going back to the Civil War. the song combined a mournful, haunting arrangement of the southern Civil War song “Dixie,” the ...
... civil religion, drawing from and attempting to transcend sentiments rooted in biracial southern antecedents going back to the Civil War. the song combined a mournful, haunting arrangement of the southern Civil War song “Dixie,” the ...
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Prime Minister | 63 |
Contextualizing the Apocalyptic Visions of McKendree Robbins Long | 89 |
Flannery OConnor and the Southern Code of Manners | 133 |
Meetings at the Buddhist Temple | 147 |
Feedimg the Jewish Soul in the Delta Diaspora | 164 |
These Untutored Masses | 249 |
Purgatory in the Carolinas | 275 |
Baptist Women and the South | 303 |
Lynching Relgiion | 318 |
Fundamentalism in Recent Southern Culture | 354 |
Copyrights and Permissions | 369 |
Contributors | 371 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture Walter H. ConserJr.,Rodger M. Payne Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture Walter Conser No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
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