| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 530 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. 1870-1900; 2. 1900-1904; 3. 1904-1914; 4. 1914-1920; 5. 1920-1924; 6. 1925-1927; 7. 1927-1929; 8. 1929-1930; 9. 1930-1931; 10. 1931-1932; 11. 1933-1935; Photo Insert 1; 12. 1934-1937; 13. 1937-1940; 14. 1941-1943; 15. 1944; 16. 1945-1947; 17. 1948; 18. 1949-1950; 19. 1951-1952; 20. 1953-1958; Photo Insert 2; 21. 1959-1965; 22. 1966-1971; 23. 1972-1990; Feature Films; Selected Television Appearances; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard's fame was eclipsed by that of his daughters, Constance and Joan, who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and found major success there. Constance became the highest-paid actress of the early 1930s, earning as much as 30,000 a week in melodramas. Later she reinvented herself as a comedienne in the classic come |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-513) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Bennett, Richard, 1873-1944.
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Bennett, Constance, 1904-1965.
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Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990.
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Bennett, Barbara, 1906-1958.
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| SUBJECT |
Bennett, Barbara, 1906-1958 fast |
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Bennett, Constance, 1904-1965 fast |
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Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990 fast |
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Bennett, Richard, 1873-1944 fast |
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Bennett, Constance. swd |
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Bennett, Joan Schauspielerin. swd |
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Bennett, Richard Schauspieler. swd |
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Bennett, Barbara Schauspielerin. swd |
| Subject |
Actors -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
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Actors
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
081317192X |
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9780813171920 |
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9780813138183 |
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0813138183 |
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1283232952 |
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9781283232951 |
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9786613232953 |
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6613232955 |
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