Isabel Jewell, like other actresses in Hollywood in the 1930s, suffered from chronic typecasting. The diminutive, platinum-haired daughter of a doctor and medical researcher seemed to be forever playing hard-boiled, tough-talking broads: gangster’s molls, dumb blondes, prostitutes and, of course, poor “white trash” Emmy Slattery in Gone with the Wind (1939). While stardom eluded her …
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