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Author : Gypsy Rose Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The G-string Murders written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gypsy Rose Lee
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558617612
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book The G-String Murders written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Burlesque is the background . . . [and] the background is perfect. Recommended for the readers who feel better when their eyebrows are raised.” —The New Yorker A mystery set in the underworld of burlesque theater, The G-String Murders was penned in 1941 by the legendary queen of the stripteasers—the witty and wisecracking Gypsy Rose Lee. Narrating a twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Lee provides a fascinating look behind the scenes of burlesque, richly populated by the likes of strippers Lolita LaVerne and Gee Gee Graham, comic Biff Brannigan and Siggy the g-string salesman. This is a world where women struggle to earn a living performing bumps and grinds, have gangster boyfriends, sip beer between acts and pay their own way at dinner. Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women’s Barracks. “[Lee’s] novel is a rich and lusty job, brimming over with infectious vitality and a hilarious jargon of her own.” —Life “A lurid, witty and highly competent detective story . . . Rich show business vocabulary and stage door gags make her book almost a social document . . . The G-String Murders builds up to a hair-raising climax.” —Time
Author : Robert Strom
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786438266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Lady of Burlesque written by Robert Strom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant woman who happened to disrobe for a living, Gypsy Rose Lee was commonly known as the "intellectual stripper." Born Rose Louise Hovick in 1911, she had meager beginnings, no formal education, and a mentally ill stage mother who criticized and demeaned her daughter. Despite these hurdles, Gypsy climbed to the peak of every career she tackled: she triumphed as an actress, novelist, playwright, artist, political activist, and, ultimately, a star. Appendices cover Gypsy's will and estate, the original production and Broadway revivals of her play Gypsy, and complete filmographies and discographies. The book contains many rare and never-before-published photographs.
Author : April March
Publisher : Northshire Bookstore
ISBN 13 : 9781605713250
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)
Download or read book REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE-APRIL M written by April March and published by Northshire Bookstore. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine being a burlesque star while still a teenager, being married eight times and being pursued by some of the biggest names in show business and the King of Saudi Arabia, being involved in a mass shooting and fleeing Chicago to escape a Mafia boss. Now imagine this same person going back on the Burlesque stage in her late seventies and again performing to sold-out crowds. This is the story of April March and it is a must read. From the plains of the mid-West to the international stage, she remained true to herself and her dreams. Today, she is still determined to continue her career and be a role model to those women who followed her. Reading her story brings you into the world of Burlesque as never before from the inside and unique experiences of the "First Lady of Burlesque."
Author : Kurt Ganzl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113535796X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Lydia Thompson written by Kurt Ganzl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inaugural volume in the Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre series sets Lydia Thompson, queen of burlesque, under the spotlight. The series will attempt to resurrect theatre performers and writers who were famous in their era, yet who have since inexplicably faded from popular memory. Outlandish tales of Lydia's touring burlesque company, the British Blondes, and such lurid episodes as her horsewhipping of a Chicago editor, a romance with a Russian Grand Duke and a lesbian attacker have left her with a reputation as a bawdy burlesquer, but Kurt Gänzl argues she was nothing of the kind. Through this biography, the reader will learn the whole and hitherto untold story of this fascinating, multi-dimensional musical-theatre star.
Author : Gypsy Rose Lee
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623172780
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Gypsy written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony Awards, as well as raves from critics and audiences: “No matter how long you live, you’ll never see a more exciting production.” —Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal “Watch out, New York! This GYPSY is a wallop-packing show of raw power.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times “Not your ordinary theater experience. This is the best production of the best damn musical ever.” —Liz Smith, Syndicated Columnist The memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces for The New Yorker, contains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New York—where gin came in bathtubs, gangsters were celebrities, and Walter Winchell was king. Gypsy’s story features outrageous characters—among them Broadway’s funny girl, Fanny Brice, who schooled Gypsy in how to be a star; gangster Waxy Gordon, who fixed her teeth; and her indomitable mother, Rose, who lived by her own version of the Golden Rule: “Do unto others … before they do you.”
Author : A. W. Stencell
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1550223712
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Girl Show written by A. W. Stencell and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique photo book which documents the hey-day of the Girls Shows to be found at carnivals and circuses alike. Compiled from the author's collection of photographs, postcards and illustrations featuring circus and carnival from 1900 onward and with text describing the origins of girls shows, their European and American developments, the high point after WWII and their ultimate demise in the face of men's magazines, strip clubs and x-rated videos, this is a valuable insight into a cultural phenomenon which ended in the 1970's.
Author : Becki Ross
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802096980
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Burlesque West written by Becki Ross and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West, the first critical history of the city's notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver - which provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly documented, Burlesque West is an ambitious and engaging social history that looks at the convergence of the personal and the political in a phenomenon that combines sex, art and entertainment, and commerce.
Author : Dan Callahan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617031844
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Barbara Stanwyck written by Dan Callahan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women—and America's highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high-quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her particular magic. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy. Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck's life and her art, exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films as Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Woman, and The Bitter Tea of General Yen; her Pre-Code movies Night Nurse and Baby Face; and her classic roles in Stella Dallas, Remember the Night, The Lady Eve, and Double Indemnity. After making more than eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to television, where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley renewed her immense popularity. Callahan examines Stanwyck's career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, All I Desire and There's Always Tomorrow, and two outrageous westerns, The Furies and Forty Guns. The book positions Stanwyck where she belongs—at the very top of her profession—and offers a close, sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and complexity.
Author : Noralee Frankel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199754330
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Stripping Gypsy written by Noralee Frankel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics with twentieth century popular culture"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Irving Zeidman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Burlesque Show written by Irving Zeidman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia von Buhler
Publisher : Titan Comics
ISBN 13 : 1785865757
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini #1 written by Cynthia von Buhler and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new 1920s mystery with a sinister twist. Unappreciated at her father’s detective agency, the fabulous, rabbit-loving Minky Woodcock straps on her gumshoes in order to uncover a magical mystery involving the world-famous escape artist, Harry Houdini. Created by acclaimed artist, author, director and playwright Cynthia von Buhler (Speakeasy Dollhouse, Evelyn Evelyn, Emily and the Strangers)! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri; min-height: 14.0px}
Author : Jane Briggeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593934699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Burlesque written by Jane Briggeman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the spirit of a unique art form through hundreds of photographs and stories from many who were a part of America's most colorful past, highlighting the careers and contributions of selected artists, many of whom were the nuts and bolts of the industry. It also acknowledges some of the young performers of today who are working to remember the days of old.
Author : Brian C. Janes
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764339981
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)
Download or read book It's All That Glitters written by Brian C. Janes and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is burlesque? Who better to ask than burlesque performers themselves? With this question in mind, the author traveled over 14,000 miles across the United States visiting today's burlesque performers, photographing them in their homes, and asking them: "What does burlesque mean to you?" Their answers and 104 accompanying portraits may surprise you. For these performers, burlesque is so many things, including fun and empowerment onstage, an escape from life's doldrums, a fantasy, a career. This book also presents a study in contrasts between the public persona of each performer and that performer's private life."--book jacket.
Author : Karen Abbott
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 081297851X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book American Rose written by Karen Abbott and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy’s world, including her intense triangle relationship with her sister, actress June Havoc, and their formidable mother, Rose, a petite but ferocious woman who literally killed to get her daughters on the stage. Weaving in the compelling saga of the Minskys—four scrappy brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee’s brand of burlesque and transform the entertainment landscape—Karen Abbott creates a rich account of a legend whose sensational tale of tragedy and triumph embodies the American Dream.
Author : Dita Von Teese
Publisher : It Books
ISBN 13 : 9780060591670
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese written by Dita Von Teese and published by It Books. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 glamour. Every day. Every minute." I'm a good dancer and a nice girl, but I'm a great showgirl. I sell, in a word, magic. Burlesque is a world of illusion and dreams and of course, the striptease. Whether I am bathing in my martini glass, riding my sparkling carousel horse, or emerging from my giant gold powder compact, I live out my most glamorous fantasies by bringing nostalgic imagery to life. Let me show you my world of gorgeous pin-ups, tantalizing stripteases, and femmes fatales. I'll give you a glimpse into my life, but a lady never reveals all. Fetish and the Art of the Teese You may have come for the fetish. Or you may just be sneaking a peek at this mysterious and peculiar other side. No matter what you've come for, there is something for you to indulge in. My world of fetish may not be the one that you would expect. As a burlesque performer, I entice my audience, bringing their minds closer and closer to sex and then -- as good temptress must -- snatching it away. As a fetish star, I apply the same techniques. . . . An opera-length kid leather glove, a strict wasp waist, an impossibly high patent leather heel, a severely painted red lip. . . . Come with me into my world of decadent fetishism.
Author : Gypsy Rose Lee
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558618015
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Mother Finds a Body written by Gypsy Rose Lee and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexy, hard-boiled murder mystery by America’s most famous burlesque entertainer.
