The Golden Girls of MGM : Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Others

Hachette Books

The Golden Girls of MGMGreta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Others\nAuthor(s): Jane Wayne\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Hachette Books, United States\nImprint: Da Capo Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780786713035, 978-0786713035\nSynopsis\nGarbo and Crawford. Ava, Hedy, Judy, Liz epitomized Hollywood's golden era. With a trembling lip or sultry eye, with a tear or song or husky whisper, these women held moviegoers across America in their sway from the hard times of the 1930s through the booming postwar years to the early sixties. They were royalty and box office, and led pampered public lives,furs, jewels, designer gowns limousines, flash bulbs, handsome escorts,that captured the national imagination. They also signed seven-year contracts with a morals clause, and the more they slipped, the more the secret abortions, efficient cover-ups, legal legerdemain, and dropped charges bound them to the wizard in their Oz, Louis B. Mayer. The slips are her.