1. Introduction - British Stars and Stardom
2. 'Our English Mary Pickford': Alma Taylor and ambivalent British stardom in the 1910s - Jon Burrows
3. The curious appeal of Ivor Novello - Lawrence Napper & Michael Williams
4. The extraordinary ordinariness of Gracie Fields: anatomy of a British star - Marcia Landy
5. Britain's greatest contirbution to the screen: Flora Robson and character acting - Andrew Higson
6. Dangerous limelight: Anton Walbook and seduction of the English - Andrew Moor
7. 'Queen of British Hearts': Margaret Lockwood revisted - Bruce Babington
8. James Mason: The man between - Peter Evans
9. The nun's story: femininity and Englishness in the films of Deborah Kerr - Celestino Deleyto
10. Trevor, not Leslie, Howard - Geoffrey MacNab
11. Sir Alec Guinness: the self-effacing star - Neil Sinyard
12. Madness, madness: the brief stardom of James Donald - Charles Barr
13. The trouble with sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell phenomenon - Pam Cook
14. 'The Angry Young Man is tired': Albert Finney and 1960s British cinema - Justine Ashby
15. Song, narrative, and the Mother's voice: A deepish reading of Julie Andrews - Bruce Babington
16. 'There's Something About Mary.....' - Julian Petley
17. Sean Connery: loosening his Bonds - Andrew Spicer
18. 'Bright particular stars': Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, and William Shakespeare - Richard Schoch