Introduction / R. Barton Palmer
Montgomery Clift : Hollywood pseudohomosexual / Tison Pugh, Barry Sandler
Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck : organization men / R. Barton Palmer
James Stewart and James Dean : the darkness within / Murray Pomerance
James Mason : a star is born bigger than life / Amy Lawrence
Reflexivity and metaperformance : Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Kim Novak / Matthew Solomon
Audrey Hepburn : the film star as event / William A. Brown
Doris Day and Rock Hudson : the girl next door and the brawny he-man / Foster Hirsch
Marlon Brando : actor, star, liar / Susan White
Jerry Lewis : from Hamlet to clown / Frank Krutnik
Judy Holliday : the hungry star / Pamela Robertson Wojcik
What a swell party this was : Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra / Adrienne L. McLean
In the wings / R. Barton Palmer
Larger than life : movie stars of the 1950s. ISBN 9780813547671. Published by Rutgers University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.