Meredith Etherington-Smith

Standard Name: Etherington-Smith, Meredith

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Literary responses Elinor Glyn
A phenomenal box-office success, the film brought in more than a million dollars.Sam Goldwyn , of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, credited EG with being the first person to put sex appeal into the cinema.
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Etherington-Smith, Meredith, and Jeremy Pilcher. The "It" Girls. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
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Biographers Meredith Etherington-Smith
Literary responses Elinor Glyn
Biographers Meredith Etherington-Smith and Jeremy Pilcher rather generously see this novel as transitional: a bridge between the first period . . . (in which [EG ] developed her powers of observation in light-hearted comedies...
Literary responses Elinor Glyn
This novella led to the widespread use of the term It: Whether you had It or not became the burning question of the day.
Etherington-Smith, Meredith, and Jeremy Pilcher. The "It" Girls. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
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It also did much to re-establish EG 's reputation...
Residence Elinor Glyn
At the invitation of the Grand Duchess Cyril (or Kiril) of Russia, EG took up residence in St Petersburg for the winter.
Biographers Meredith Etherington-Smith and Jeremy Pilcher follow the Old Style in use in...

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Etherington-Smith, Meredith, and Jeremy Pilcher. The "It" Girls. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.