Ladies of the Western : Interviews with Fifty One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s

Magers, Boyd and Fitzgerald, Michael G.

ISBN 10: 0786411406 / ISBN 13: 9780786411405

Published by McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, Jefferson, NC, U.S.A., 2002

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328 pages indexed. Brown glossy laminated covers illustrated with black and white photographs of Beverly Garland and Kathleen Hughes. Forewords by Kathryn Adams, Mala Powers and Marion Shilling. Photographic front cover of Beverly Garland in Badlands of Montana 1957 and Kathleen Hughes in Dawn at Socorro 1954. This is a follow up book to a 1999 book titled Westerns Women. Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns From the !930's to the 1960's. In these two books Fitzgerald and Magers focus on the long overlooked contribution of women in westerns and the actresses who portrayed them. The classical western movie has given us our unique American folklore that embodies the pioneer spirit of this nation. Westerns also embody and characterize the basic moral forces of both the male and the female. While the hero contributes the physical action that slays the ever-threatening dragons, it is the heroine who carries the civilizing values that lead us into the future. Without her, the western becomes one-sided and easily slips into violence for the sake of violence. Illustrated with black and white photos on almost every page. Seller Inventory # 9067

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ladies of the Western : Interviews with ...

Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, Jefferson, NC, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

This work features interviews with 51 leading ladies who starred in B-westerns, A-westerns, and television westerns. Some were well-known and others were not, but they all have fascinating stories to tell and they talk candidly about their careers and the many difficulties that went along with their jobs. Back then, conditions were often severe, locations were often harsh, and pay was often minimal. The actresses were sometimes the only females on location and they had to provide their own wardrobe and do their own make-up, as well as discourage the advances of over-affectionate co-stars. Despite these difficulties, most of the women interviewed for this agree that they had fun. Claudia Barrett, Virginia Carroll, Francis Dee, Lisa Gaye, Marie Harmon, Kathleen Hughes, Linda Johnson, Ruta Lee, Colleen Miller, Gigi Perreau, Ann Rutherford, Ruth Terry, and June Vincent are among the 51 actresses interviewed.

About the Author:

Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers are also the authors of Westerns Women: Interviews with Fifty Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s (1999, $36.50). Fitzgerald lives in El Dorado, Arkansas and Magers resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.