America 1930-1939: Arts Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 111 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.

America 1930-1939: Arts Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 111 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.
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ReneeAdoree, 35, film actor (The Big Parade, 1925, Call of the Flesh, 1930), 5 October 1933.

Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle, 46, film actor (His Wife's Mother, A Reckless Romance) accused of causing starlet Virginia Rappe's death in 1921, 29 June 1933.

Mary Austin, 65, author of books on Native Americans, including Lands of the Sun (1927) and One Smoke Stories (1934), 13 August 1934.

Heywood Broun, 51, writer, journalist, cofounder of Newspaper Guild, 18 December 1939.

Lon Chaney, 47, actor, star of The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), 26 August 1930.

Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 74, novelist (The Conjure Woman, 1899), 15 November 1932.

Herbert Croly, 61, author, publisher of the New Republic, 17 May 1930.

Marie Dressier, 64, film actor, won 1931 Academy Award for Min and Bill, 28 July 1934.

Finley P. Dunne, 68, journalist and humorist, wrote humorous essays in the character of "Mr. Dooley," 24 April 1936.

Harrison Fisher, 58, illustrator of magazine covers, created "Fisher Girl," 19 January 1934.

Pauline Frederick, 53, silent-screen star (Bella Donna, Madame X), 19 August 1938.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 77, author of books on...

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