In this fast-paced, wide-ranging biography, Gary Carey traces their origins and exploits with a clear-eyed tenacity that Little Mary herself would have admired; and there's a grace and energy in his writing worthy of Doug making one of his stupendous leaps across a chasm of improbabilities. In the end Carey has managed to capture and explain that most elusive secret of every movie eminence, from Pickford and Fairbanks to Streisand and star quality." Richard Corliss
