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Don't
make the mistake of letting THIS book be your Bible when researching the
girls, ladies, and reigning doyennes of MGM, the studio with "more
stars than there are in the heavens." It seems to have been loosely
sewn together from moldy back issues of Confidential and the National
Enquirer, resulting in a biblio-Frankenstein with no personality at
all-- just the horrors. Do yourselves a favor and add this to your
collection for the pictures, but you can disregard most of the ill-written
text.
NORMA WATCH:
Typical is their chapter on Norma Shearer, in which conjecture and
innuendo are used to serve up what they declare happened when Miss Shearer
became a star, while at other times awarding her their watery version of
kudos.
FROM THE BOOK:
"In one quick week a monster was born. Norma Shearer read her
press releases very carefully and came to actually believe them."
"As
unkind as Joan appeared, she was speaking for a large MGM contingent and
hundreds more Hollywood outsiders down whose throats the imperial,
pretentious Miss Shearer had been forced since 1927, when the Shearer-Thalberg
love affair had first blossomed."
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