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  • Eleanor Powell

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    inbunden, 1994, Engelska, ISBN 9780313281105

    Eleanor Powell began her notable career at age 12, with an appearance at a supper show at an Atlantic City hotel. As a teenager, she moved to vaudeville and Broadway, where

  • Woman in the Making

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    E-bok, 2014, Engelska, ISBN 9781444798555

    'Today, as I walked through Dublin city centre, I saw gay couples casually holding hands as they strolled, and kissing each other goodbye at bus stops in the late spring sunshine,

  • Tales of a Tiller Girl

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    E-bok, 2014, Engelska, ISBN 9780007582150

    A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene's story will transport readers

  • Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905

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    E-bok, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9781137476623

    Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using

  • Entertaining the Troops

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    häftad, 2019, Engelska, ISBN 9781784423513

    This book explores the foundation and work of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and other entertainment organisations such as CEMA and Stars in Battledress.

  • New Humor in the Progressive Era

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    E-bok, 2014, Engelska, ISBN 9781137357182

    By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and

  • Five Sedgwicks

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    E-bok, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9781476617817

    Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood. Their work took them from vaudeville to silent film, through the studio

  • Flesh for Fantasy

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    pocket, 2005, Engelska, ISBN 9781560257219

    A rising interest in stripping as a form of exercise has attracted celebrities such as Teri Hatcher This book gives a glimpse of what exotic dancing is like from the eyes of the

  • King's Jester

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    E-bok, 2010, Engelska, ISBN 9780857731043

    Who was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was. They had seen him live on the music hall stage, listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny

  • My Sister's Keeper

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    E-bok, 1976, Engelska, ISBN 9781442632981

    In a tight, dramatic, two-character, two-act play Ted Allan, one of Canada's best-known playwrights, challenges us to think again about love and guilt, about madness and normalcy.