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050 00 $aPN1995.9.W6$bD53 2001
082 00 $a791.43/652042$221
100 1 $aDiBattista, Maria,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79088175
245 10 $aFast-talking dames /$cMaria DiBattista.
260 $aNew Haven, CT :$bYale University Press,$c2001.
263 $a0104
300 $axvi, 365 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a""There is nothing like a dame," proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and 40s. In this engaging book, film scholar and movie buff Maria DiBattista celebrates the fast-talking dame as an American original. Coming of age during the Depression, the dame - a woman of lively wit and brash speech - epitomized a new style of self-reliant, articulate womanhood. Dames were quick on the uptake and hardly ever downbeat.
520 8 $aThey seemed to know what to say and when to say it. In their fast and breezy talk seemed to lie the secret of happiness, but also the key to reality. DiBattista offers vivid portraits of the grandest dames of the era, including Katherine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, and others, and discusses the great films that showcased their compelling way with words - and with men."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWomen in motion pictures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147593
650 0 $aWomen$zUnited States$xLanguage.
852 00 $bglx$hPN1995.9.W6$iD53 2001
852 00 $bbar$hPN1995.9.W6$iD53 2001