Fast-talking dames
by Maria DiBattista
""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.
They 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-357) and index.
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