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Article: Stardust and shadows: Canadians in early Hollywood.
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- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood * Charles Foster, Dundrun Press, Toronto. 408 pages. $29.99
Stardust and Shadows is a curious book. The author, Charles Foster, has chosen to taken a very personal look at some of the Canadian-born actors and directors he meet in Hollywood during the 1940s; those, he claims in his prologue, who played an important role in the early days of the motion-picture industry. While it is undeniable that some of the 18 names he has chosen to profile -- Mary Pickford, Marie Dressier, Allan Dwan, Mack Sennett, Douglas and Norma Shearer -- amply quality, it's who he omits or just mentions in passing that is puzzling.
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