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2) Funny girl
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott's institutional history details T.O.B.A.'s...
5) A revolution in three acts: the radical vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An African American who performed in blackface to challenge racial stereotypes; a woman whose song, "I Don't Care," became emblematic of the modern "New Woman"; and a female impersonator whose act was created to uphold the traditional values of American femininity. These stories are at the center of David Hajdu's new work of graphic nonfiction, which recounts the lives and careers of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge, three of the most...
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