Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
Author
Kristen Anderson Wagner
Content
x + 303 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Detroit: Wayne State University Press
Description
Covers the early 1910s to the late 1920s and includes discussion of white performers including Clara Bow, Marion Davies, Dorothy Devore, Marie Dressler, Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Gish, Gale Henry, Alice Howell, Colleen Moore, Polly Moran, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, Constance Talmadge, Eva Tanguay, and Fay Tincher.
Wagner, Kristen Anderson. Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1394.
