Anna Held And Flo Ziegfeld

Author : Eve Golden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813128730

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Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway by Eve Golden Pdf

" Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Époque, she epitomized everything that was glamorous, sophisticated, and suggestive about turn-of-the-century Broadway. Overcoming an impoverished life as an orphan to become a music-hall star in Paris, Held rocketed to fame in America. From 1896 to 1910, she starred in hit after hit and quickly replaced Lillian Russell as the darling of the theatrical world. The first wife of legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Held was the brains and inspiration behind his Follies and shared his knack for publicity. Together, they brought the Paris scene to New York, complete with lavish costumes and sets and a chorus of stunningly beautiful women, dubbed ""The Anna Held Girls."" While Held was known for a champagne giggle as well as for her million-dollar bank account, there was a darker side to her life. She concealed her Jewish background and her daughter from a previous marriage. She suffered through her two husbands' gambling problems and Ziegfeld's blatant affairs with showgirls. With the outbreak of fighting in Europe, Held returned to France to support the war effort. She entertained troops and delivered medical supplies, and she was once briefly captured by the German army. Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway reveals one of the most remarkable women in the history of theatrical entertainment. With access to previously unseen family records and photographs, Eve Golden has uncovered the details of an extraordinary woman in the vibrant world of 1900s New York.

Author : Anna Held,Liane Carrera
Publisher : Exposition Pressof Florida
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0682493090

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Anna Held and Flo Ziegfeld by Anna Held,Liane Carrera Pdf

Author : Cynthia Brideson,Sara Brideson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813160900

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Ziegfeld and His Follies by Cynthia Brideson,Sara Brideson Pdf

In this definitive biography, Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson offer a comprehensive look at both the life and legacy of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they provide a lively and well-rounded account of Ziegfeld as a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a lover, and an alternately ruthless and benevolent employer. Lavishly illustrated, this is an intimate and in-depth portrait of a figure who profoundly changed American entertainment.

Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822323230

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Ziegfeld Girl by Linda Mizejewski Pdf

A study of the iconographic significance of the Ziegfeld girl in twentieth-century American conceptions of sexuality, race, class, and consumerism.

Author : Frank Cullen,Florence Hackman,Donald McNeilly
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9780415938532

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Vaudeville old & new by Frank Cullen,Florence Hackman,Donald McNeilly Pdf

Author : Randolph Carter
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0236310534

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The World of Flo Ziegfeld by Randolph Carter Pdf

Author : Charles Higham
Publisher : Chicago : Regnery
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Impresarios
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036718778

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Ziegfeld by Charles Higham Pdf

Chronicles the life and loves of Florenz Ziegfeld and his career in the theater.

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781617032509

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The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville by Anthony Slide Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography. Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as “The I Don't Care Girl,” male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of “freak” acts.

Author : Tom Tierney
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 0486248119

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Ziegfeld Follies Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney Pdf

This sparkling collection spotlights nine of the shows' fabulous stars plus Flo Ziegfeld himself in 29 costumes. Includes Anna Held, Billie Burke, Fanny Brice with costumes by Erte, John Harkrider, more."

Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429951524

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Ziegfeld by Ethan Mordden Pdf

Any girl who twists her hat will be fired! – Florenz Ziegfeld And no Ziegfeld girl ever did as she made her way down the gala stairways of the Ziegfeld Follies in some of the most astonishing spectacles the American theatergoing public ever witnessed. When Florenz Ziegfeld started in theater, it was flea circus, operetta and sideshow all rolled into one. When he left it, the glamorous world of "show-biz" had been created. Though many know him as the man who "glorified the American girl," his first real star attraction was the bodybuilder Eugen Sandow, who flexed his muscles and thrilled the society matrons who came backstage to squeeze his biceps. His lesson learned with Sandow, Ziegfeld went on to present Anna Held, the naughty French sensation, who became the first Mrs. Ziegfeld. He was one of the first impresarios to mix headliners of different ethnic backgrounds, and literally the earliest proponent of mixed-race casting. The stars he showcased and, in some cases, created have become legends: Billie Burke (who also became his wife), elfin Marilyn Miller, cowboy Will Rogers, Bert Williams, W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor and, last but not least, neighborhood diva Fanny Brice. A man of voracious sexual appetites when it came to beautiful women, Ziegfeld knew what he wanted and what others would want as well. From that passion, the Ziegfeld Girl was born. Elaborately bejeweled, they wore little more than a smile as they glided through eye-popping tableaux that were the highlight of the Follies, presented almost every year from 1907 to 1931. Ziegfeld's reputation and power, however, went beyond the stage of the Follies as he produced a number of other musicals, among them the ground-breaking Show Boat. In Ziegfeld: The Man Who Created Show Business, Ethan Mordden recreates the lost world of the Follies, a place of long-vanished beauty masterminded by one of the most inventive, ruthless, street-smart and exacting men ever to fill a theatre on the Great White Way : Florenz Ziegfeld.

Author : Nils Hanson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786464074

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Lillian Lorraine by Nils Hanson Pdf

"This biography recounts the early life of this superstar as well as her coronation on Broadway, her work in silent film, and her sexual liaisons. It also covers her eventual disappearance from public life, her alcoholism and her death, which went largely unnoticed. The book includes first-hand personal anecdotes and observations from recently discovered tapes"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Marlis Schweitzer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206166

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When Broadway Was the Runway by Marlis Schweitzer Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood's red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater impresarios captured the imagination of their largely female patrons by transforming the stage into a glorious site of consumer spectacle. Theater historian Marlis Schweitzer examines how these impresarios presented the dresses actresses wore onstage, as well as the jewelry and hairstyles they chose, as commodities that were available for purchase in nearby department stores and salons. The Merry Widow Hat, designed for the hit operetta of the same name, sparked an international craze, and the dancer Irene Castle became a fashion celebrity when she anticipated the flapper look of the 1920s by nearly a decade. Not only were the latest styles onstage, but advertisements appeared throughout theaters, in programs, and on the curtains, while magazines such as Vogue vied for the rights to publish theatrical costume sketches and Harper's Bazar enticed readers with photo spreads of actresses in couture. This combination of spectatorship and consumption was a crucial step in the formation of a mass market for consumer goods and the rise of the cult of celebrity. Through historical analysis and dozens of early photographs and illustrations, Schweitzer aims a spotlight at the cultural and economic convergence of the theater and fashion industries in the United States.

Author : Vicki Gold Levi,Steven Heller
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568984901

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Times Square Style by Vicki Gold Levi,Steven Heller Pdf

Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "reality television," there was Times Square. For a century, it has stood as the blazing Crossroads of the World; the sometimes magical, sometimes tawdry, but always spectacular epicenter of American commercial culture. Times Square Style is a visual compendium of the energy and dazzle and glamour that made the Great White Way the most famous -- and notorious -- place in America's most famous -- and notorious -- city. From Ziegfeld's Follies and George White's Scandals to titanic signs with screaming type -- Drink Pepsi! Smoke Camels! Good to the Last Drop! -- to burlesques with dancing girls in short, short skirts, this book brings to colorful life a trove of arcane, lost, and otherwise forgotten promotions, signs, flyers, programs, posters, records, napkins, advertisements, billboards, and other works of ephemera large and small. Times Square Style is published on the centennial anniversary of this defining American place, with more than 200 color images and 25 vintage black-and-white prints.

Author : Tom Tierney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486436799

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Ziegfeld Girls Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney Pdf

11 dolls model 30 costumes worn in lavish musical extravaganzas. Figures of Anna Held, Helen Morgan, Billie Burke, Marilyn Miller, and other stars.

Author : Billie Burke
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786256126

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With A Feather On My Nose by Billie Burke Pdf

The popular comedienne’s account of her theatrical career and her married life with Florenz Ziegfeld. This is the life story of an actress, a beautiful redheaded actress who lived and played in a glittering era now gone but fondly remembered. Although she attained moments of great fame and happiness, she never knew security. Like her father, the well-known clown, she went through life with a feather on her nose.—Print Ed.