LEADING COUPLES: THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE SCREEN ROMANCES OF THE STUDIO ERA
With text by Frank Miller, whose previous books include Leading Ladies and Leading Men, introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and loads of photographs covering about half a century of Hollywood history, Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books, 2008) takes a brief look at nearly forty successful movie pairings from the studio era (and a little later).
Among those featured are both the obvious — say, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn — and several more esoteric couplings (at least as far as modern film lovers are concerned), e.g., [...]
by Andre Soares | December 20, 2008
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