When Teens Were Keen: Freddie Stewart and the Teen Agers of Monogram

by Pam Munter

They were arguably the most talented song and dance troupe ever to come out of Hollywood in the 1940s. They were The Teen Agers, in the first series of films to capture the idealized spirit of clean-cut post WWII high school youth. Their real lives, however, were very different from their screen personalities. Only one member actually graduated from high school. There were rivalries and stage mothers, cluminating in spousal abuse, alcoholism, multiple marriages, depression, and suicide. All but one died tragically and she became Lois Lane.

136 pages, Hardcover

Published January 15, 2005