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close-ups of the stars with crowd scenes.
His message was clear: here was the successful
personality, standing out in all its
glory against the undifferentiated nobodies
of the world. Americans absorbed these
messages enthusiastically. The vast majority
of biographical profiles published in The
Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s at the
dawn of the twentieth century were about
politicians, businessmen, and professionals.
But by the 1920s and 1930s, most profiles
were written about entertainers like Gloria
Swanson and Charlie Chaplin. (See Susman
and Henderson; see also Charles Musser,
The Emergence of Cinema: The American
Screen to 1907 [Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1994], 81; and Daniel
Czitrom, Media and the American Mind:
From Morse to McLuhan [Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1982, p.
42].)
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