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Movie magazines of the twenties and thirties—Photoplay, Screenland, Motion Picture, Motion Picture Classic, Film Pictorial and Picture Play—are not reliable sources for facts, but they do reliably record what the stars and studios wanted to present as fact. As such, they are essential documents of the myths and mores of their time. The writings of Delight Evans, editor and film critic of Screenland and of Gladys Hall, a tireless interviewer and reporter, were especially helpful.

Cosmopolitan and particularly the old Life, a humor magazine, served a similar function with regard to the turn of the century. Humor is predicated on widely assumed truths. Behind the jokes are beliefs and attitudes. Theater Magazine was invaluable in giving a sense of the evolving nature of the American stage in the first twenty-five years of the century. Variety from the twenties and thirties was also a necessary stop, as was Vanity Fair.

Newspaper articles, from the pre-Code era and later, also contributed. The newspapers include the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the New York Telegraph, the New York Graphic, the New York Daily News, the New York Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and an unpublished 1958 interview with Norma Shearer, originally intended for the Stanford University newspaper.

Foundational to the research of this book were the Production Code files at the Margaret Herrick Library at the Center for Motion Picture Study at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library in Los Angeles.

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