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Index
Cover
Dedication
Epigraph
Part One | Up from Under
1: Family History
2: The Perils
3: Starting Life Anew
4: Heart and Nerve and Sinew
5: Keeping Kool
6: The Prevailing Sizzle
7: On Being Actresses, Not Asstresses
8: Formerly Ruby Stevens of the Cabarets
9: Broadway’s Favorite Son
10: Having a Hunch
11: Invitation West
12: Panic of Self-Doubt
13: A Test in Technicolor
14: Trying to Make a Living
15: A Primitive Emotional
16: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Love
17: On Her Own
Part Two | Undertow
1: “Hot Speel in the Blood”
2: Idealism and Fight
3: On Being “Barbaric”
4: “Theoretically Dangerous Overload”
5: F • A • Y
6: Salt of the Earth
7: Prophets of a New Order
8: Object of Desire
9: A Path to Motherhood
10: A Most Dangerous Man Menace
11: Bold and Bad
12: Entrances and Exits
Part Three | Valor and Fire
1: Adjusted Angles of Vision
2: Sinister Provisions
3: Leading with Your Ace
4: A Beautiful Ghost
5: Normal People Leading Normal Lives
6: Another Routine Job
7: Average Screenfare
8: “Little Sure Shot”
9: Practical Policies
10: Scar Tissue
11: High Schemes and Misdemeanors
12: This Side of the Sphinx
13: The Making of a Man
14: Exactly Like Anybody
15: Good Luck at Home
16: Fresh Passion, Fresh Pain
17: Sea of Grass
Part Four | A Larger Reach
1: Feelings of Uncertainty
2: Goddamned Sinkhole of Culture
3: Stella Dallas
4: “Clean Labor Unionism”
5: Starry Skies Above
6: Well, Who Am I?
7: Bull in the Afternoon
8: Rearing Up
9: Charges of Contempt
10: Wins and Losses
11: Golden Influences
12: Mother Love at Home and Abroad
13: Pomp and Glory
14: Champion of the “Cockeyed Wonder”
15: Ain’t She a Peacherino
16: Darkening Lands
17: On the Brink
Acknowledgments
About Victoria Wilson
Appendix I: Stage Chronology
Appendix II: Film Chronology
Appendix III: Radio Chronology
Appendix IV: Television Chronology
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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