In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s

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In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dramatize them in biography, cinema, and performance for public consumption during the 1930s--back cover.

subjects: Marie antoinette, queen, consort of louis xvi, king of france, 1755-1793,  Zweig, stefan, 1881-1942,  Queens,  Biography as a literary form,  France, biography,  Criticism and interpretation,  History in motion pictures,  Queens in motion pictures