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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... began to appear . " Thomas A. Tweed's award - winning Our Lady of the Exile both presented a model ethnography of Cuban im- migrant Catholicism in Miami and indicated that the older bound- aries of what constituted the study of southern ...
... began to appear . " Thomas A. Tweed's award - winning Our Lady of the Exile both presented a model ethnography of Cuban im- migrant Catholicism in Miami and indicated that the older bound- aries of what constituted the study of southern ...
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... began giving renewed atten- tion to studies with a regional focus. the background to this shift in the scholarly literature was increasing suspicion about the con- tinued utility of a master narrative for American religious history. How ...
... began giving renewed atten- tion to studies with a regional focus. the background to this shift in the scholarly literature was increasing suspicion about the con- tinued utility of a master narrative for American religious history. How ...
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... began attending an Assemblies of God church in south Memphis , whose preacher denounced films and dancing and encouraged “ ecstatic demonstrations of faith , " such as speaking in tongues . He attended a Bible study group on Sun- day ...
... began attending an Assemblies of God church in south Memphis , whose preacher denounced films and dancing and encouraged “ ecstatic demonstrations of faith , " such as speaking in tongues . He attended a Bible study group on Sun- day ...
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... began with Presley's reading of Joseph Benner's The Impersonal Life , a 1917 volume teaching that God was in each human . That mes- sage was one that Presley responded to immediately , having long before embraced the belief that his ...
... began with Presley's reading of Joseph Benner's The Impersonal Life , a 1917 volume teaching that God was in each human . That mes- sage was one that Presley responded to immediately , having long before embraced the belief that his ...
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... began visiting the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Retreat in California and told one friend he wanted to be- come a monk. He found a new serenity through the leader of the Self- Realization Fellowship, Sri Daya Mata. She ...
... began visiting the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Retreat in California and told one friend he wanted to be- come a monk. He found a new serenity through the leader of the Self- Realization Fellowship, Sri Daya Mata. She ...
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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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