The Matinee Idols

David Carroll

ISBN 10: 0883651017 / ISBN 13: 9780883651018

Published by Galahad Books, New York, 1972

About this Item

Here - in 183 vintage photographs and evocative text - is the real, behind-the-scenes astory of the magnificent stars of stage and early screen who held America's women in thrall.Here they are, large as life, the first of the red-hot lovers - sons of ministers, ne'er do wells, always fine of face and form - who came to our shores in the late 19th century to knock the ladies dead in the afternoon hours on stages across the country. Starting with Edmund Kean and John Wilkes Booth to Francis X. Bushman and Douglas Fairbanks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Matinee Idols
• Publisher: Galahad Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883651017
• ISBN 13: 9780883651018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Photographs
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: EXCELLENT
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 159 pages; Description: 159 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Entertainers --United States --Biography.