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The Eddie Cantor Story

David Weinstein
The Eddie Cantor Story Book PDF

Author : David Weinstein
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512601343

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The Eddie Cantor Story by David Weinstein Pdf

This absorbing biography chronicles the life and work of one of the most important entertainers of the twentieth century. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) starred in theater, film, radio, and television. His immense popularity across a variety of media, his pride in his Jewish heritage, and his engagement with pressing political issues distinguished him from other headliners of his era. Paying equal attention to Cantor's humor and politics, Weinstein documents his significance as a performer, philanthropist, and activist. Many show business figures quietly shed their Jewish backgrounds or did not call attention to the fact that they were Jewish. Cantor was different. He addressed the vital issues of his times, including acculturation, national identity, and antisemitism. He was especially forceful in opposing Nazism and paid a price for this activism in 1939, when a sponsor cancelled the actor's radio program. In this carefully researched book, Weinstein uncovers sketches and routines filled with Jewish phrases, allusions, jokes, songs, and stories. Cantor frequently did not mark this material as "Jewish," relying instead on attentive audiences to interpret his coded performances. Illustrated with thirty photographs, The Eddie Cantor Story examines the evolution, impact, and legacy of Cantor's performance style. His music and comedy not only shaped the history of popular entertainment, but also provide a foundation for ongoing efforts to redefine Jewish culture and build community in contemporary America.

Take My Life

Eddie Cantor
Take My Life Book PDF

Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher : Garden City, New York : Doubleday
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Actors
ISBN : UOM:39015008464086

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Take My Life by Eddie Cantor Pdf

A retelling, with additional material for the years since 1928, of the popular vaudeville, radio and TV comedian's life previously chronicled in "My life is in your hands."

Eddie Cantor

Gregory Koseluk
Eddie Cantor Book PDF

Author : Gregory Koseluk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034251036

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Eddie Cantor by Gregory Koseluk Pdf

In an era dominated by the likes of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy, no entertainer was more popular over a long period of time than Eddie Cantor. At various times he was the most celebrated performer on the vaudeville circuit, on Broadway, and in radio, television and film. Today many film historians ignore the contributions of Cantor. Unlike his contemporaries, he was never recognized for a comedic style. Instead he relied on his high energy performances to entertain audiences on their level. He tailored his career to give his fans what they wanted, and he was wildly successful at doing just that. This is a comprehensive look at the career of the consummate show businessman.

Banjo Eyes

Herbert G. Goldman
Banjo Eyes Book PDF

Author : Herbert G. Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040060306

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Banjo Eyes by Herbert G. Goldman Pdf

Entertainer Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) shared the stage with the likes of W.C. Fields and Fanny Price, founded the March of Dimes, and was the only American entertainer to reign successively as the biggest star on Broadway, in the movies, and on radio. This biography recreates Cantor's extraordinary journey from New York's Lower East Side to the glorious era of Broadway and Hollywood in the 1930s. A few bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Forgotten Network

David Weinstein
The Forgotten Network Book PDF

Author : David Weinstein
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1592134998

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The Forgotten Network by David Weinstein Pdf

"The heart of David Weinstein's book examines DuMont's programs and personalities, including Dennis James, Captain Video, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, Ernie Kovacs, and Rocky King, Detective. Weinstein uses rare kinescopes, archival photographs, exclusive interviews, trade journal articles, and corporate documents to tell the story of a "forgotten network" that helped invent the very business of network television."--Jacket.

Caught Short!

Eddie Cantor
Caught Short Book PDF

Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher : Musson Book Company
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073389796

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Caught Short! by Eddie Cantor Pdf

American comedian and entertainer Eddie Cantor relates his humorous take on the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

Married to Laughter

Jerry Stiller
Married to Laughter Book PDF

Author : Jerry Stiller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743211468

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Married to Laughter by Jerry Stiller Pdf

The current generation knows him as the serenity-seeking Frank Costanza from Seinfeld. An older generation knows him as one-half of the comedy team Stiller and Meara. But, as his memoir, Married to Laughter, reveals, Jerry Stiller has had a lifelong love affair with entertainment. Growing up during the Depression in Brooklyn and on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Jerry Stiller discovered the power of comedy when, as a child, he saw Eddie Cantor transform an audience. Jerry's father often took him to vaudeville performances, where Jerry decided that he, too, wanted to make people laugh. He studied drama at Syracuse University, where a charismatic professor inspired Jerry to believe that he could achieve his dream and become a successful actor. After Syracuse, Jerry returned to New York to begin a life in the theater. Jerry soon met Anne Meara. Even before he fell in love with her, he knew she was a remarkable person. At first they encouraged each other in their separate performances, but eventually they began doing a comedy act in the coffeehouses of New York's Greenwich Village. They created a brilliantly successful act with two characters who were exaggerated versions of themselves. Before long, they were regulars on The Ed Sullivan Show, the most popular television program of the day. Stiller and Meara was a smash hit. But Jerry's first love has always been the theater, and he writes with fondness and charm about his nearly fifty years in show business -- from summer stock to the early days of Joe Papp's pioneering Shakespeare in the Park, from his Broadway performance in Hurlyburly to his roles in such films as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Ritz, Seize the Day, and Hairspray. He describes the genesis of the hugely successful Blue Nun radio commercials that he and Anne recorded, the first of many award-winning advertisements they would make together. Jerry takes us inside his life offstage, describing with great candor his personal and professional neuroses, including some unusual experiences in therapy. He recounts hilarious stories about the Stiller family and tells wonderful tales about such friends and colleagues as Walter Matthau, Colleen Dewhurst, Mike Nichols, F. Murray Abraham, and Henny Youngman. But most of all, he describes life with Anne, showing us his admiration for her as a performer and describing how she gave him the insight into acting that he'd long sought. Married to Laughter is a great love story about two people who found their place in show business without ever losing sight of each other.

Conceptualizing Music

Lawrence Michael Zbikowski,Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Conceptualizing Music Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Michael Zbikowski,Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195140231

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Conceptualizing Music by Lawrence Michael Zbikowski,Lawrence M. Zbikowski Pdf

The play of concepts and conceptual structures typical of music theory is thus not something remote from our appreciation of music, but is instead basic to it."--Jacket.

The Days We Danced

Doris Eaton Travis
The Days We Danced Book PDF

Author : Doris Eaton Travis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806199504

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The Days We Danced by Doris Eaton Travis Pdf

Autobiography of a Ziegfeld Follies star, an copartner of Arthur Murray Dance Studios, a quarter horse ranch owner in Oklahoma, and at age 88, the recipient of a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Madeline Kahn

William V. Madison
Madeline Kahn Book PDF

Author : William V. Madison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617037627

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Madeline Kahn by William V. Madison Pdf

Best known for her Oscar-nominated roles in the smash hits Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn (1942–1999) was one of the most popular comedians of her time—and one of the least understood. She turned out as reserved and refined as her characters were bold and bawdy. Almost a Method actor in her approach, she took her work seriously. When crew members and audiences laughed, she asked why—as if they were laughing at her—and all her life she remained unsure of her gifts. William V. Madison examines Kahn’s film career, including not only her triumphs with Mel Brooks and Peter Bogdanovich, but also her overlooked performances in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother and Judy Berlin, her final film. Her work in television—notably her sitcoms—also comes into focus. New York theater showered her with accolades, but also with remarkably bad luck, culminating in a disastrous outing in On the Twentieth Century that wrecked her reputation on Broadway. Only with her Tony-winning performance in The Sisters Rosensweig, fifteen years later, did Kahn regain her standing. Drawing on new interviews with family, friends, and such colleagues as Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Gene Wilder, Harold Prince, and Eileen Brennan, as well as archival press and private writings, Madison uncovers Kahn’s lonely childhood and her struggles as a single woman working to provide for her erratic mother. Above all, Madison reveals the paramount importance of music in Kahn’s life. A talented singer, Kahn entertained offers for operatic engagements long after she was an established Hollywood star, and she treated each script as a score. As Kahn told one friend, her ambition was “to be the music.”

Winchell and Runyon

Trustin Howard
Winchell and Runyon Book PDF

Author : Trustin Howard
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761851318

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Winchell and Runyon by Trustin Howard Pdf

This book is about the bond between two legendary journalists, Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon, during the unforgettable era of World War II and the years following. Winchell was a popular radio personality and Runyon was a popular Broadway personality, best known for having written the show 'Guys and Dolls.'

Eddie Cantor

James Fisher
Eddie Cantor Book PDF

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019322945

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Eddie Cantor by James Fisher Pdf

Born Isidore Iskowitz in 1892, Eddie Cantor became one of the greatest entertainers of Depression-era America. The star of such films as Roman Scandals (1933) and Kid Millions (1934), he symbolized the ordinary person who falls into extraordinary circumstances. Off-screen or on, Cantor exuded a spirit of charity and hopefulness. His life was marked by numerous humanitarian achievements and a strong commitment to political and social causes. On October 29, 1995, as part of a nationwide celebration of the 75th anniversary of radio, he was posthumously inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communication. Despite his significant achievements and enormous popularity with his public, Eddie Cantor is today among the most overlooked performers of the golden age of American entertainment. This reference book provides detailed information on his extensive stage, film, radio, television, and musical work and includes an extensive bibliography. The volume begins with a carefully documented biography that discusses Cantor's upbringing, his rise as a vaudeville star, his social and political activism, and his success as a film, radio, and television personality. A chronology then highlights the most memorable achievements in his remarkable career. The chapters that follow are devoted to his stage, film, radio, and television work. Each chapter lists Cantor's performances in a particular medium and provides detailed material, such as cast and credit information, plot synopses, review excerpts, and a critical commentary. The volume also includes entries for his various recordings and for sheet music bearing his name or image. Appendices cite his newsreel appearances and cartoons featuring his likeness. An extensive bibliography of works by and about Cantor concludes the book.

Ziegfeld

Ethan Mordden
Ziegfeld Book PDF

Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales

Brett Leveridge
Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales Book PDF

Author : Brett Leveridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : UCSC:32106012642382

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Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales by Brett Leveridge Pdf

As heard on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "This American Life, " Leveridge spins the mostly true tales of small-town Lotharios and big-city dreams in a voice that is simultaneously hip and homespun--and utterly his own. National Public Radio sponsorship.

American Vaudeville

Geoffrey Hilsabeck
American Vaudeville Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Hilsabeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952271061

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American Vaudeville by Geoffrey Hilsabeck Pdf

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere--then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history--part social history, part song--American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books. Geoffrey Hilsabeck's book grows out of extensive archival research. Rather than arranging that research--the remains of vaudeville--into a realistic picture or tidy narrative, Hilsabeck dreams vaudeville back into existence, drawing on photographs, letters, joke books, reviews, newspaper stories, anecdotes, and other material gathered from numerous archives, as well as from memoirs by vaudeville performers like Buster Keaton, Eva Tanguay, and Eddie Cantor. Some of this research is presented as-is, a letter from a now forgotten vaudeville performer to her booking agent, for example; some is worked up into brief scenes and biographies; and some is put to even more imaginative uses, finding new life in dialogues and prose poems. American Vaudeville pulls the past into the present and finds in the beauty and carnivalesque grotesqueness of vaudeville a fitting image of American life today.