"Back in 2001, I put together Golden Images, a collection of silent
movie star articles originally published in Classic Images and
Films of the Golden Age. It's taken me nearly ten years-oh, I keep
busy-but here is the sequel, Bride of Golden Images (if Abbott and
Costello were in this book, yes, it would have been called Abbott
and Costello Meet Golden Images). "As in the first book, these
articles have all been seen in CI and FGA. But, also as in Golden
Images, I have gone over them with a fine-toothed comb: rewriting,
doing additional research, and handing it over to my fabulous
editor, Richard Kukan, so that clunky phrasing and just plain bad
writing can be fixed. "I loved writing for CI and FGA (I basically
ran out of subjects, so only do an occasional piece for them now,
such as a recent tribute to the late Anita Page). What other
publication will happily print pieces on the Duncan Sisters? Judy
Tyler? Jimmy Durante? The research and writing were fun for me, and
I hope that comes through in these articles. It was an additional
kick for me to be able to illustrate this book with photos from The
Everett Collection, where I work as an archivist. Bride of Golden
Images covers the talkie years, from the late 1920s through the
1960s. It's an eclectic collection of superstars, second bananas,
character actors, and stage stars dipping their toes into the
movies. Some of them immortal (Garbo, Dietrich, Crawford, Monroe).
Some fondly remembered mostly by movie and pop-culture buffs
(Carmen Miranda, Edward Everett Horton, Betty Grable, Inger
Stevens, Constance Bennett). And then, those whose stories are
known only to us few real fanatics: Lyda Roberti, the Hilton
sisters, Helen Kane, Renate Muller, Phillips Holmes. If I can bring
those people back to life for just a few moments, I will be, as
Edith King Hall wrote in a 1900 children's book, 'the happiest
little girl in all of Toyland.'"
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