“An eminently good read.”
The Bay Area Reporter “[An] excellent, superbly detailed and illustrated book. . . . Highly recommended.”
Choice "An important, groundbreaking work. In reminding us of the stardom of Marie Dressler
the most significant female box-office star of the early sound era in Hollywood
Sturtevant not only tells the definitive story of this unjustly forgotten figure, but calls into question the very idea that stardom is simply an 'industry of desire.'"
David Desser, coeditor of Hollywood Goes Shopping "Rich with archival materials, this marvelous study of Marie Dressler's film career deranges the norm, questions critical assumptions, and challenges our historical comprehension of the period."
Jennifer M. Bean, coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema