Sally Rand

Author : William Elliott Hazelgrove
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493038602

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Sally Rand by William Elliott Hazelgrove Pdf

She would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a Road Atlas by Cecil B. DeMille. A football play would be named after her. She would appear on To Tell the Truth. She would be arrested six times in one day for indecency. She would be immortalized in the final scene of The Right Stuff, cartoons, popular culture, and live on as the iconic symbol of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933. She would pave the way for every sex symbol to follow, from Marilyn Monroe to Lady Gaga. She would die penniless and in debt. In the end, Sammy Davis Jr. would write her a $10,000 check when she had nothing left. Her name was Sally Rand. You can draw a line from her to Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Ann Margret, Madonna, and Lady Gaga. She broke the mold in 1933 by proclaiming the female body as something beautiful and taking it out of the strip club with her ethereal fan dance. She was a poor girl from the Ozarks who ran away with a carnival, then joined the circus, and finally made it to Hollywood where Cecil B. DeMille set her on the road to fame with silent movies. When the talkies came, her career collapsed and she ended up in Chicago, broke, sleeping in alleys. Two ostrich feathers in a second-hand store rescued her from obscurity.

Author : Cheryl Ganz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252078521

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The 1933 Chicago World's Fair by Cheryl Ganz Pdf

Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's motto, "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms," was challenged by iconoclasts such as Sally Rand, whose provocative fan dance became a persistent symbol of the fair, as well as a handful of other exceptional individuals, including African Americans, ethnic populations and foreign nationals, groups of working women, and even well-heeled socialites. Cheryl R. Ganz offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression. This engaging history also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other it

Author : Leslie Zemeckis
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781640092655

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Feuding Fan Dancers by Leslie Zemeckis Pdf

"Detailed, deeply researched, and compelling." —Chicago Tribune Historian Leslie Zemeckis reveals the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance. Nearly one hundred years later, both women come alive again.

Author : Jim Lowe,Bonnie Egan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1889574457

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Barefoot to the Chin by Jim Lowe,Bonnie Egan Pdf

A rollicking biography of the queen of the fan dancers

Author : A. W. Stencell
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781550223712

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Girl Show by A. W. Stencell Pdf

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 : Lawrence O. Christensen,William E. Foley,Gary Kremer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826260160

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Dictionary of Missouri Biography by Lawrence O. Christensen,William E. Foley,Gary Kremer Pdf

Provides short biographies on notable men and women from Missouri from a variety of areas including politics, business, agriculture, entertainment, sports, social reform, science and religion.

Author : Michael F. Crowe,Robert W. Bowen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738547344

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San Francisco Art Deco by Michael F. Crowe,Robert W. Bowen Pdf

The famed period of architecture, design, and style known as Art Deco began in the mid1920s and lasted for a good 20 years. The movement left an indelible stamp all around the Bay Area but nowhere more so than in styleconscious San Francisco. The city's 1925 Diamond Jubilee, coinciding with the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in France, ushered in the Art Deco age to the city by the bay. The Roaring Twenties created a need for thousands of new commercial and residential buildings, and many of these, such as Timothy Pflueger's Pacific Telephone and Telegraph building, were Art Deco masterpieces that embodied the new "moderne" styling sweeping the country. Using a variety of building materials, including terracotta, Vitrolux, and neon, many of the city's graceful and dramatic buildings turned heads 70 years ago just as they do today.

Author : Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438107905

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A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts by Liz Sonneborn Pdf

Presents biographical profiles of 150 American women of achievement in the field of performing arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226732374

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World of Fairs by Robert W. Rydell Pdf

In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history—begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair—this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few—particularly artists, architects, and scientists—were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America—a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.

Author : Clay Coppedge
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625841964

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Forgotten Tales of Texas by Clay Coppedge Pdf

From El Chupacabra to the Marx Brothers, Clay Coppedge has a talent for digging into Texas's most unusual history. Strange as they may seem, many of these Texas-sized legends are surprisingly true, like Pancho Villa's film contract and the notorious Crash at Crush, a staged train collision and failed publicity stunt that turned tragic outside of Katy. Whether fact or lore, each tale is irrefutably part of a unique and fascinating heritage that invigorates the spirit like a Texas frontier remedy.

Author : William H. Patterson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429964852

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Robert A. Heinlein: Volume I by William H. Patterson Pdf

For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later years. His most famous works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, he was both stranger and more interesting than one could ever have known. This is the first of two volumes of a major American biography. This volume is about Robert A. Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the mid-life crisis that changed him forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Leroy Neiman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762785247

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All Told by Leroy Neiman Pdf

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world’s most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012. He broke the barrier between fine art and popular art while creating indelible images that helped define the twentieth century. But it is the life he lived and the people he knew that make the memoir of this scrappy Depression-era kid who became a swashbuckling bon vivant with the famous mustache such a marvelous historical canvas. Chronicler and confidant of Muhammad Ali, Neiman also traveled with Sinatra, cavorted with Dalí and Warhol, watched afternoon soaps with Dizzy Gillespie, played in Sly Stallone’s Rocky movies, exchanged quips with Nixon, smoked cigars with Castro, and experienced the terrorist attacks at the Munich Olympics alongside Peter Jennings, Howard Cosell, and Jim McKay. And then there was his half-century relationship with Hugh Hefner as principle artistic contributor to Playboy, setting up studios in London and Paris to cover his Playboy beat, “Man at His Leisure,” and his creation of the Femlin, the iconic Playboy nymphette. With his life’s work, and in All Told, LeRoy Neiman captured sports heroes, movie stars, presidents, dishwashers, jet-setters, jockeys, and more than a few Bunnies at the Playboy Mansion—a panoramic record of society like no other.

Author : Brian Spangle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439668979

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Hidden History of Vincennes & Knox County by Brian Spangle Pdf

The Battle of Fort Sackville appears in every history of Vincennes and Knox County, yet so much more defines this area. Everyone is familiar with George Rogers Clark, but few know about ordinary but accomplished figures like diplomat Hubbard Taylor Smith and Civil War veteran Joseph Roseman. The Stibbins murder of 1911 and other long-forgotten crimes once shocked the county, and visits by politicians and entertainers, including Buffalo Bill Cody, enthralled residents before quickly slipping from memory. Weather made history, too, such as the destructive hailstorm that pounded northern Knox County in 1907. With the help of rare photographs, local historian and Sun-Commercial columnist Brian Spangle brings to life these stories and more.

Author : Deborah R. Vargas
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816673162

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Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music by Deborah R. Vargas Pdf

Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599670607

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Heritage Signature Vintage Movie Poster Auction #636 by Anonim Pdf