1983 First Edition. New York: St Martin's Press. Gray cloth with black silver stamping. 288 pages, including an Index. Features 25 leaves of MGM archival b/w photographs featuring the major leading ladies throughout the first five decades of the 20th century. Text block is square and tight, Mint condition. Dust jacket is in Mint condition, protected by wrap-around mylar. Complete and unclipped.
MGM Girls raises "The Velvet Curtain" and gives us the real stories behind Louis B. Mayer's carefully created, pampered stars, who were the most bullied women in Hollywood (Hedy Lamarr recalls that the MGM lot was "Heaven and Hell all contained in five acres". Featured are the MGM girls who were destroyed by the studio system (Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, Mae Murray); along with those who survived (Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Elizabeth Taylor).
A must for the film scholar and movie memorabilia collector and fan.