Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance
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Princeton University Press, 2021.
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9780691238180
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Virginia Wright Wexman., & Virginia Wright Wexman|AUTHOR. (2021). Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance . Princeton University Press.
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