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Ziegfeld and his follies a biography of Broadway's greatest producer
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Ziegfeld and his follies [electronic resource] : a biography of Broadway's greatest producer / Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson.
ISBN
0813160901
9780813160900
9780813160887 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 15, 2015
Series
Screen classics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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