Table of Contents
Introduction 4
1920S: Birth of the Modern Diet 6
The Lamb Chop and Pineapple Diet 10
The Grapefruit Diet 12
The First Diet Bestseller 14
Clara Bow's Summer Diet 16
Clean Eating with Gloria Swanson 20
Madame Sylvia: Hollywood's First Fitness Guru 22
Early Cosmetic Surgery 26
Raw 28
Greta Garbo: Fitness Fanatic 30
Pushing the Boundaries of (Alternative) Medicine 32
1930S: Health, Vitality and Personality! 34
Forget Diet and Exercise (Try Pills and Cigarettes) 37
The Hay Diet 38
The Bananas and Skimmed Milk Diet 40
Jean Harlow's Four-Day Diet 42
The Dietrich Diet 44
Hollywood's Body Sculptors 46
Joan Crawford: Natural Athlete 50
Ginger Rogers: Dancing for Her Life 52
Lunchtime in Hollywood 54
Inside Bette Davis's Lunch Box 56
1940S: Pin-Up Proportions 58
Calisthenics for Everyone 61
Betty Grable: Taking Care of Million-Dollar Legs 64
Ann Sheridan's Tips for Girls Who Dare to Bare 66
Rita Haywanh: Goddess Guide 68
The Bagot Stack Stretch and Swing System 70
Measuring Desire: The (Statistically) Ideal Figure 72
Dorothy Lamour's Perfect Proportions 74
Gayelord Hauser Celebrity Chef 76
Diets for Skinny Girls with Ava Gardner and Co 80
1950s: Curves, Curves, Curves 82
Diet Pills: Take Two 86
Diet like If's 1955 87
The Low-Col Revolution 88
Elevenses with Grace Kelly 90
Jane Russell: Building 'The Body' 92
Indra Devi: First Lady of Yoga 94
Marilyn Monroe: Fitness Trailblazer 96
Jack LaLanne: The Godfather of Fitness 102
Audrey Hepburn's Menu 104
Afterword: The Resistance 408
