Author : John Dunning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1998-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780195076783
A wonderful reader for anyone who loves the great programs of old-time radio, this definitive encyclopedia covers American radio shows from their beginnings in the 1920s to the early 1960s.
Author : Gregory Koseluk
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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.
Author : Thomas A. DeLong
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2024-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147660763X
From the time Westinghouse started commercial broadcasting in 1920 through the end of the radio soap operas in the early 1960s, hundreds of men and women performed on radio. Day after day, week after week, these performers (e.g., Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Lowell Thomas, Kay Kyser, and Bob Hope) became familiar voices and welcomed guests in the homes of millions of Americans. Actors, comedians, singers, commentators, announcers, emcees, newscasters, preachers and various other artists all gave voice to radio and 953 of them are covered in this unique reference work. Performers Fran Allison, Les Paul, Johnny Desmond, Alec Templeton, Don Wilson, Jerry Colonna and soap opera favorites Virginia Payne, Betty Garde, Macdonald Carey, David Gothard, Page Gilman, and Jan Miner are included herein, as well as Ezra Stone, Groucho Marx, Will Rogers, Frank Sinatra and hundreds more. For each, there is a listing of radio programs, birth and death dates (where appropriate) and a biography that focuses on work in radio. Heavily illustrated.
Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476612234
The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Benny Program, Lum and Abner) to mysteries (Inner Sanctum Mysteries, The Black Chapel) to game shows (Can You Top This?, Truth or Consequences) to serials (Second Husband, Bachelor's Children) to crime dramas (The Falcon, Eno Crime Clues, The Green Hornet, Mr. and Mrs. North) to westerns (Gunsmoke, Wild Bill Hickok, Hawk Larabee) that were aired between 1931 and 1972, are included in this work. Each entry has a brief introductory paragraph that provides information about the storyline, principal cast, sponsors and air dates. Commercials have been included if the programs were under regular sponsorship. Includes three appendices (sponsors; slogans and jingles; and World War II announcements) and an index.
Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2024-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0520409663
A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV--Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Davis was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race against the backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture.
Author : Will Friedwald
Publisher :
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190882042
In this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on Nat King Cole, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star.
Author : Frank Cullen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 0415938538
Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Law
ISBN :
Volume contains: 266 NY 670 (Lojo Realty Co. v. Estate of Johnson) 266 NY 661 (Long v. Long) Unreported Case (Maranta v. Wenzelberg) Unreported Case (Markson v. Markson's Furniture Stores, Inc.) 266 NY 668 (Martin v. Miller) 266 NY 650 (Mattar v. Cesari) 266 NY 650 (Sarkees v. Cesari) 266 NY 639 (Matter of Bd. of Ed. v. City of Niagara Falls)
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 1933
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jim Cox
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786451769
How was it that America would fund its nascent national radio services? Government control and a subscription-like model were both considered! Soon an advertising system emerged, leading radio into its golden age from the 1920s to the early 1960s. This work, divided into two parts, studies the commercialization of network radio during its golden age. The first part covers the general history of radio advertising. The second examines major radio advertisers of the period, with profiles of 24 companies who maintained a strong presence on the airwaves. Appendices provide information on 100 additional advertisers, unusual advertisement formats, and a glossary. The book has notes and a bibliography and is fully indexed.
