Fast-Talking Dames Customer Relations (Books) "Regarded simply from the standpoint

"Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism

ISBN13: 9780060923150 ISBN10: 0060923156 Material Type: paperback

But as the campaign unfolded

and always an astute observer of what's going on

”—Delia Owens

Fast-Talking Dames Customer Relations (Books) "Regarded simply from the standpoint"There is nothing like a dame," proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and '40s. In this engaging book, film scholar and movie buff Maria DiBattista celebrates the fast talking dame as an American original. Coming of age during the Depression, the damea woman of lively wit and brash speechepitomized a new style of self reliant, articulate womanhood. Dames were quick