It didn't serve Crothers so well. Normally admired for the serious social commentary of her works, Nice People was regarded as a sop to commercial taste. * These included another young actress, Blythe Daley, who in FLAPPERS 132.
Examines the popular culture of the Roaring Twenties, including the speakeasies, gangsters, dance bands, and silent film stars, and the women who came to symbolize it.
In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring ...
Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another ...
This book offers an examination of the Roaring Twenties in the United States, focusing on the vibrant icon of the newly liberated woman—the flapper—that came to embody the Jazz Age.
... Twice Over Lightly : New York Then and Now . In 1974 she published another autobiographical work , Kiss Hollywood Good - Bye . Loos died on August 18 , 1981 . Notes 1. Other dates given for her birth range from 1888 through 1893 . 2 ...