Vaudeville and Burlesque
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Burlesque and the New Bump-N-Grind
by Michelle Baldwin  Publisher Comments Michelle Baldwin (aka, Vivienne VaVoom) brings the lost art of burlesque back to the forefront of pop culture....
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Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry
by Paul M Levitt Publisher Comments Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (1896–1983). Although occasionally...
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Midnight at the Palace: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette
by Pam Tent Publisher Comments David Weissman and Bill Weber's 2002 documentary, The Cockettes, wowed audiences at the Sundance Film Festival and shined a bright new light on the Cockettes. Now one of the founding members of the legendary troupe takes us inside this flamboyant...
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No Applause--Just Throw Money: Or the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous
by Trav S. D. Publisher Comments A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these...
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Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show
by Rachel Shteir Publisher Comments The fascinating, untold story of the history of undressing: over fifty years of taking it off. Striptease combined sexual display and parody, cool eros and wisecracking Bacchanalian humor. Striptease could be savage, patriotic, irreverent, vulgar...
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Gypsy: A Memoir
by Gypsy Rose Lee Publisher Comments The touching, hilarious memoir of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee reveals her childhood trouping across 1920s America as the rear end of a cow in vaudeville. Her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New York occurred when gin came in...
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Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique
by Kelly Dinardo Publisher Comments The first biography of Lili St. Cyr, a pioneering artist in the realm of Burlesque entertainment, draws comparisons between her story and the emerging American sexuality in the 20th century, mirroring social changes in sexual politics and the...
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Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese
by Dita Von Teese Publisher Comments On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of submission. Burlesque and the Art of the Teese "I advocate...
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Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice
by Barbara W Grossman Publisher Comments Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a truly popular entertainer, with a career that spanned four decades. She was a hit in almost every branch of American show business--burlesque and vaudeville, drama and musical revues (including nine Ziegfeld follies) film...
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Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show
by Rachel Shteir Publisher Comments The fascinating, untold story of the history of undressing: over fifty years of taking it off. Striptease combined sexual display and parody, cool eros and wisecracking Bacchanalian humor. Striptease could be savage, patriotic, irreverent, vulgar...
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Ziegfeld Girl : Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema (99 Edition)
by Linda Mizejewski Publisher Comments "A smart, assured book about the construction of an important figure in America who represents a contradictory, and perhaps uniquely American, constellation of types--the chorus girl, the ideal beauty, the golddigger, the perfect wife, and the tramp--all...
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Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
by Camille Forbes Publisher Comments It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and...
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My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee
by Erik Lee Preminger Publisher Comments At home and backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee....
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Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies
by Lauren Redniss Publisher Comments The Ziegfeld Follies, Florenz Ziegfeld's stage spectacular, promised the best performers, the most lavish sets, and the most ravishing girls. Doris Eaton Travis was one of these prized beauties-and, at 14, was chosen as the youngest chorus girl in the...
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Fanny Brice :the original funny girl
by Herbert G Goldman Publisher Comments "I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man," Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to...
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Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies
by Arthur Fra Wertheim Publisher Comments Will Rogers and Florenz Ziegfeld are two magic names in show business. Today Rogers is considered America's most beloved humorist, while Ziegfeld is recognized as the most flamboyant impresario in the history of the American musical theatre. Rogers was...
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Head Heart & Heel
by Bill Treadwell
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Bal Du Moulin Rouge Fantastic
by Moulin Rouge
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The merry partners; the age and stage of Harrigan and Hart.
by E J Kahn
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Burlesque Tradition in the English Theat
by V Clinton Baddeley
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