Olympia Kiriakou: Virginia Grey, Gebunden

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Virginia Grey is best known to Golden Age Hollywood fans for her work in suchlms as The Women (1939), All That Heaven Allows (1955), and The Naked Kiss (1964). Her career spanned six decades and more than one hundred movie, theater, and television performances, and she worked with some of the industry's most celebrated talents, including Joan Crawford, Red Skelton, and Stanley Kramer. Born into a Hollywood family, Grey was a beautiful and confident actor who could adapt to a variety of genres from comedy to melodrama tolm noir. She held stardom in the palm of her hand, but it was the one thing she didn't want.

Virginia Grey: Good Luck Charm explores Grey's journey from studio contract artist to independent freelancer alongside key developments in Hollywood's labor market. Author Olympia Kiriakou also details aspects of Grey's private life: growing up on studio sound stages, her romances with Clark Gable and Robert Taylor, her political activism, and her diverse business interests. Using original interviews as well as personal scripts, contracts, and other ephemera, Kiriakou argues that Grey's professional accomplishments and resistance to celebrity radically shift our perception of success in the classic Hollywood studio system. This first-ever biography of Virginia Grey seeks to popularize her contributions to the stage and screen, showing how she became her own good luck charm--and did so her own way.