In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s Stefan Zweig, Irving Thalberg, and Norma Shearer /

• Main Author: Larkin, T. Lawrence (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-History.; Motion pictures.; Motion picture acting.; Motion pictures > Production and direction.; Popular Culture.; Fine arts.; Film History.; Adaptation Studies.; Screen Performance.; Film and TV Production.; Popular Culture .; Fine Arts.

In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. In Search of Marie-Antoinette: The Inscrutable Life Worth Scrutinizing
• 2. Stefan Zweig's Clinical Biography, 1930-1932
• 3. Irving Thalberg's Film Production, 1934-1936
• 4. Norma Shearer's Dramatic Performance, 1937-1938
• 5. Conclusion.