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1940 Carole Landis magazine cover photo...
1940 Carole Landis magazine cover photo...
Item # 724648
November 24, 1940
PICTURE SECTION only of the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Aug. 11, 1940
* Austrian-American actress Elissa Landi
* 1940 magazine color cover photo
* Hollywood's "Golden Age" films - movies
The front page of this section has a nice color photo of Hollywood actress Elissa Landi. (see images) Nice for display.
Other topics throughout. Complete with all 8 pages, measures 21 x 15 inches, some small binding holes along the spine, good condition.
background: Elissa Landi was the quintessential "intellectual aristocrat" of 1930s Hollywood, a woman whose off-screen life was arguably as dramatic as her roles in Cecil B. DeMille epics. Rumored to be the secret granddaughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, she brought an authentic, high-born sophistication to films like The Sign of the Cross (1932) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) that few of her contemporaries could replicate. However, Landi was never content being just a studio asset; she was a prolific novelist and a sharp-witted scholar who often felt stifled by the industry's obsession with glamour over substance. This friction eventually led her to walk away from the silver screen in the early 1940s to dedicate herself to writing and the Broadway stage, cementing her legacy not as a tragic starlet, but as a self-determined artist who chose her own narrative over the one written for her by the Hollywood machine.
Category: The 20th Century
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