Brigadoon and Hollywood’s Distortion of Scotland
I recently came across Colin McArthur’s book Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema (2003), which (as its title implies) devotes a chapter to Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, 1954), an MGM musical starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charrisse. Most of the chapter (#3) may be read here on Google books. And a description of the book overall: This provocative book follows MGM’s Gene Kelly musical Brigadoon through the worlds of 1940s...
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Justine Picardie reviews a new book on the life of Gloria Vanderbilt — the headline-friendly socialite, serial wife and fashion designer. Vanderbilt’s tragedies and tumultuous [life] events were to be chronicled not only by tabloids, television reports, a miniseries and various glossy magazines, but also by Vanderbilt herself in a series of memoirs and autobiographical novels. One of these — It Seemed Important at the Time — described her numerous...
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