Gaylyn Studlar: 2 books
by Gaylyn Studlar
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun—Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. The series offered viewers an unusual hero in the mysterious, Shakespeare-spouting gunfighter known only as “Paladin” and...
Precocious Charms
Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult actresses who created motion picture masquerades of youthfulness. Studlar details how Mary Pickford, Shirley...