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Daily Archives: December 7, 2014

Fay Bainter Publicity Photo

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Fay Bainter as Ming Toy in East is West. Photo by Bachrach courtesy of David Shields.

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A Shanghai Cinderella (renamed East is West, 1918) by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer, Fay Bainter

Fay Bainter’s Biography

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

This biography of Fay Bainter appeared in the fan magazine Hollywood in 1938 to promote Bainter’s Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938). The biography makes mention of her star-making role […]

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Fay Bainter

Tyler Groff

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Tyler Groff is a second year doctoral student in English with a research focus situated in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century British literature and drama. He is currently exploring ways in which […]

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Tyler Groff

Katie N. Johnson

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Katie N. Johnson is Associate Professor of English and an Affiliate of Film and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Sisters […]

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Katie N. Johnson

Katie N. Johnson

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Katie N. Johnson is Associate Professor of English and an Affiliate of Film and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Sisters […]

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Tyler Groff

December 7, 2014by Kathleen Johnson

Tyler Groff is a second year doctoral student in English with a research focus situated in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century British literature and drama. He is currently exploring ways in which […]

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Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900 – 1920

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