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Author:

Smith, Glenn D.

Title:

"Something on my own" : Gertrude Berg and American broadcasting, 1929-1956 / Glenn D. Smith, Jr.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xv, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Berg, Gertrude,--1899-1966.
Actors--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-275) and index.

Contents:

Part 1. The beginning -- Prologue : "and she was rarely afraid" -- "Something on my own" -- Part 2. Radio -- "A place in the radio sun" -- "Molly as somebody else" -- "You will always be Molly" -- "Yours goes on forever" -- Part 3. A new frontier -- Interlude : "a strange new world" -- "The first lady of television" -- Part 4. The blacklist -- "A center of stormy controversies" -- "I won't fire him" -- "Like hanging fire" -- Part 5. Starting over -- "Television is serious business" -- "Gertrude died with her boots on".

Series:

The television series

ISBN:

081560887X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780815608875 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007012970

Locations:

UNUX074 -- Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)