My Life is in Your Hands
Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher :
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781593936341
Both autobiographies of one of the greatest comedians of the 20th century, Eddie Cantor.
Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : David Weinstein
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1512601349
This absorbing biography chronicles the life and work of one of the most important entertainers of the twentieth century. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) starred in theater, film, radio, and television. His immense popularity across a variety of media, his pride in his Jewish heritage, and his engagement with pressing political issues distinguished him from other headliners of his era. Paying equal attention to Cantor's humor and politics, Weinstein documents his significance as a performer, philanthropist, and activist. Many show business figures quietly shed their Jewish backgrounds or did not call attention to the fact that they were Jewish. Cantor was different. He addressed the vital issues of his times, including acculturation, national identity, and antisemitism. He was especially forceful in opposing Nazism and paid a price for this activism in 1939, when a sponsor cancelled the actor's radio program. In this carefully researched book, Weinstein uncovers sketches and routines filled with Jewish phrases, allusions, jokes, songs, and stories. Cantor frequently did not mark this material as "Jewish," relying instead on attentive audiences to interpret his coded performances. Illustrated with thirty photographs, The Eddie Cantor Story examines the evolution, impact, and legacy of Cantor's performance style. His music and comedy not only shaped the history of popular entertainment, but also provide a foundation for ongoing efforts to redefine Jewish culture and build community in contemporary America.
Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Eddie Cantor
Publisher : Garden City, New York : Doubleday
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Actors
ISBN :
A retelling, with additional material for the years since 1928, of the popular vaudeville, radio and TV comedian's life previously chronicled in "My life is in your hands."
Author : William Everett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135848068
The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most perplexing. What are its defining features? How does it negotiate multiple socio-cultural-economic spaces? Is it a popular tradition? Is it a commercial enterprise? Is it a sophisticated cultural product and signifier? This research guide includes more than 1,400 annotated entries related to the genre as it appears on stage and screen. It includes reference works, monographs, articles, anthologies, and websites related to the musical. Separate sections are devoted to sub-genres (such as operetta and megamusical), non-English language musical genres in the U.S., traditions outside the U.S., individual shows, creators, performers, and performance. The second edition reflects the notable increase in musical theater scholarship since 2000. In addition to printed materials, it includes multimedia and electronic resources.
Author : Errol Flynn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2002-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815412509
Scandalous film star Errol Flynn tells all in this autobiography, detailing his pre-Hollywood career as a mercenary, and his trial for rape in 1943.
Author : Debby Applegate
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385534760
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America. "A fast-paced tale of … Polly’s many court battles, newspaper headlines, mobster dealings and society gossip…. A breathless tale told through extraordinary research.” —The New York Times Book Review Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld—and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.
Author : Wil Haygood
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080417251X
The untold story of Sammy Davis, Jr.: This incisive biography and sweeping cultural history conjures "the many worlds [Davis, Jr.] traversed, and shows how the issue of race, in his own mind and in the minds of his fans and detractors, shaped his career and life" (The New York Times). For decades one of America’s most recognizable stars, the real Sammy Davis, Jr. has long remained hidden behind the persona the performer so vigorously generated—and so fiercely protected. Here Wil Haygood brings Davis’s life into full relief against the backdrop of an America in the throes of racial change. He made his living entertaining white people but was often denied service in the very venues he played, and in his broad and varied friendships—not to mention his romances—Davis crossed racial lines in ways few others had. In Black and White vividly draws on painstaking research and more than two hundred and fifty interviews to trace Davis, Jr.’s journey from the vaudeville stage to Broadway, Hollywood, and, of course, Las Vegas. It is an important record of a vanished America—and of one of its greatest entertainers.