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Ziegfeld and his follies : a biography of Broadway's greatest producer /
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 alte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Screen classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "A man of triple and quadruple personalities"
- Part 1: Anna and Flo ... and Lillian, 1867-1913
- The showman, the strongman, and the girl with the eyes
- Gloomy Gus and the Petit bourgeois
- "It's delightful to be married"
- A maelstrom of mirth
- Entrances and exits
- The girl at the top of the stairs
- Part 2. Billie and Flo ... and Marilyn, 1914-1923
- Taming an incorrigible bounder
- Lively productions
- The past becomes ashes
- The Ziegfelds' Xanadu
- The greatest victory party America has ever known
- Dear old Zieggy and company
- A new normalcy
- The end of the glory days
- part 3: The darkest hour of success, 1923-1932
- Little boy blue
- Vacations from reality
- A shot in the arm
- Splendor and intelligence
- Ziegfeld laughs ... and cries
- "I can't do this anymore"
- Going home
- Part 4: The legacy of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., 1932-
- Going Hollywood
- His shows must go on
- Beauty slain
- Epilogue: "You can't ever kill magic"
- Appendix: Shows produced and coproduced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.