Dear all,

'Merely a set of rather good-looking nonentities,' wrote an anonymous fan to Picture-Play magazine in 1926, regarding its focus on Hollywood stars. In Linn Lönroth's essay, '“Certainly No Clark Gable” – Reflections on the Journalistic Discourse about Hollywood Character Actors, ca. 1915-1949', published in the IAMHIST Blog this week, she explores the significant popular discourse that emerged around the character actor, drawing upon articles, interviews, films reviews, gossip columns and other types of journalism from Hollywood fan magazines and US newspapers from the classical era:

http://iamhist.net/2020/04/certainly-no-clark-gable/

With best wishes to you all during these troubling times,

Llewella


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