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Title: Power of Glamour: The Women Who Defined the Magic of Stardom by Annette Tapert, Ellen Horan ISBN: 0517703769 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent¿awaiting a third entry!
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed both of Miss Tapert's books, and hope that she is working on a third-perhaps on female writers who influenced style, such as Elinor Glyn, Jackie Susann and George Sand?
I was particularly pleased to see in this book actresses such as Constance Bennett and Kay Francis, who too often are overlooked. The only subject I might quibble with is Garbo, who was notoriously anti-style and anti-glamour in her private life. But that is a very small objection to a delightful and re-readable book!
Rating: 2
Summary: Seriously lacking
Comment: This book is seriously lacking in that no compendium of Hollywood style is complete without 60's icon Audrey Hepburn or the lovely Miss Marilyn Monroe who exemplified 50's glamour. Not as good as its predecessor "The Power of Style" which included that other 60's icon the gracious Jackie O'...
Rating: 3
Summary: Not really what the title suggests
Comment: The mere shame about this book is it limits the subject of analysis to the stars of the 30s. The book fails to give a full interpretation of glamour defined by Hollywood in the decades after the 30s. Who can bear the exclusion of such elegant ladies as Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly when it comes to reflecting on the 'power of glamour'? I really think that the book cover should clearly inform readers with the message that only the stars of the 30s are covered so they would not be misled and feel cheated.
Anyway the book takes an intriguing look at those selected actresses ranging from household names (Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn) to lesser-known ones like Constance Bennet and Kay Francis in terms of delicious profiles and appealing pictures. A kind of riveting, breathtaking glamour you can't see anymore in today's so-called movie stars. How I wish to live in that time and witness how they impress the world!
This book will leave you for more and so, to the author: why not go further and do a book for each glittering decade of the Hollywood Glamour Era in the same fashion and layout? only the 30s is not enough.
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Title: The Power of Style: The Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well by Annette Tapert, Diana Edkins ISBN: 0517585685 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Slim: Memories of a Rich and Imperfect Life by Slim Keith, Annette Tapert ISBN: 0671631640 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters by David Grafton ISBN: 0394584163 Publisher: Villard Books Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Better Than Beauty: A Guide to Charm by Helen Valentine, Alice Thompson, Emery I. Gondor ISBN: 0811834514 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier ISBN: 0312308760 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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