208pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white, tinted and colour pictures. In pictorial boards with a linen backstrip. (Boards are heavily worn and rubbed, chipped on edges, faded and a little soiled, more markedly so on the reverse). Text block edges darken and softening. Hinges cracked, some light spotting especially on endpapers, a few pages have small corner creases, binding is loosening but holding. Previous owner's name and address, dated 1939 on front free endpaper. An exploration of the screen stars and hits films of 1937, with colour portraits of Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Jean Arthur, Leslie Howard, Marlene Dietrich and more; articles looking at film-making by Samuel Goldwyn; the Real Shirley Temple by W H Mooring; the Success Story of Jessie Matthews; and pictorial features on the film Achievements of the Year; With the Stars at Home; Astaire and Rogers; Fashion Studies of the Stars; Popeye the Sailor etc. There are two portraits laid in, which appear to be contemporary images of film stars, but are unidentified and in worn condition. . Tall 4to.
