DANGEROUS CURVES ATOP HOLLYWOOD HEELS: THE LIVES, CAREERS, AND

DANGEROUS CURVES ATOP HOLLYWOOD HEELS: THE LIVES, CAREERS, AND MISFORTUNES OF 14 HARD-LUCK GIRLS OF THE SILVER SCREEN

"We were like dragonflies. We seemed to be suspended effortlessly in the air, but in reality, our wings were beating very, very fast." - Mae Murray

"It is worse than folly for persons to imagine that this business is an easy road to money, to contentment, or to that strange quality called happiness." - Bebe Daniels

"A girl should realize that a career on the screen demands everything, promising nothing." - Helen Ferguson

In Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels, author Michael G. Ankerich examines the lives, careers, and disappointments of 14 silent film actresses, who, despite the odds against them and warnings to stay in their hometowns, came to Hollywood to make names for themselves in the movies.

On the screen, these young hopefuls became Agnes Ayres, Olive Borden, Grace Darmond, Elinor Fair, Juanita Hansen, Wanda Hawley, Natalie Joyce, Barbara La Marr, Martha Mansfield, Mary Nolan, Marie Prevost, Lucille Ricksen, Eve Southern, and Alberta Vaughn.

Dangerous Curves follows the precarious routes these young ladies took in their quest for fame and uncovers how some of the top actresses of the silent screen were used, abused, and discarded. Many, unable to let go of the spotlight after it had singed their very souls, came to a stop on that dead-end street, referred to by actress Anna Q. Nilsson as, Hollywood's Heartbreak Lane.

Pieced together using contemporary interviews the actresses gave, conversations with friends, relatives, and co-workers, and exhaustive research through scrapbooks, archives, and public records, Dangerous Curves offers an honest, yet compassionate, look at some of the brightest luminaries of the silent screen. The book is illustrated with over 150 photographs.

(Agnes Ayres, Rudolph Valentino, Olive Borden, Grace Darmond, Elinor Fair, Juanita Hansen, Wanda Hawley, Natalie Joyce, Barbara La Marr, Martha Mansfield, Mary Nolan, Marie Prevost, Lucille Ricksen, Eve Southern, Alberta Vaughn, silent movies, Hollywood history, cinema history, film history, silent movies dvd, silent movies blu ray, silent movies dvd, silent movies kobel, silent movies on dvd, silent movies the birth of film and the triumph of movie culture, movies for kindle fire, movies for kindle fire download, movies for kindle for free, movies to download, movies for kindle fire hd, movies on demand, movies free, movies and tv, movies and videos, movies and tv shows for kindle fire, movies amazon prime, movies based on books, movies books, movies dvd, movies download, movies epic, movies for ipad, movies for kindle fire hdx, movies on amazon prime, movies on ipad, movies online, movies on prime, movies on amazon, movies on line, movies streaming, movies to download, movies to download on kindle fire)
Country USA
Manufacturer BearManor Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-11-26
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	BearManor Media
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-11-26
Format	Kindle eBook

DANGEROUS CURVES ATOP HOLLYWOOD HEELS: THE LIVES, CAREERS, AND MISFORTUNES OF 14 HARD-LUCK GIRLS OF THE SILVER SCREEN

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