Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

PART ONE. BORN TO SING
1. "Now everybody's got to clap!"
2. Scandals
3· Twinkling Stars and Four-Leaf Clovers
4· A Fair Princess on Broadway

PART TWO. LINGERIE QUEEN OF THE TALKIES
5· Lubitsch and Chevalier
6. Only a Nose
7· Vive la France!
8. Mr. Mayer and the Widow

PART THREE. HOLLYWOOD DIVA
9· An All-American Team
IO. The Iron Butterfly
II. Hollywood Diva
12. Middlebrow Muse
13. The Soprano Militant

PART FOUR. ECHOES OF SWEET SONG
14. Battles Operatic
I5. A Graceful Exit
I6. Distress Signals
I7. "Carve your name in human hearts"
18. "Just the echo of a sigh"

Afterword
Stage Credits
Film Credits
Principal Recording Sessions
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index

About the Author

Edward Baron Turk is Professor of French and Film Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the prize-winning Child of Paradise: Marcel Carne and the Golden Age of French Cinema (1989).

Reviews

"Turk's research sets a new standard for excellence....He has written a provocative, entertaining and authoritative book."--Emily Wortis Leider," Los Angeles Times"