Author: Margaret Talbot
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594631883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Using the life and career of her father, writer Margaret Talbot tells the story of the rise of popular culture through a personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. In her impeccably researched narrative--a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood.--From publisher description.
The Entertainer
Author: Margaret Talbot
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594631883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Using the life and career of her father, writer Margaret Talbot tells the story of the rise of popular culture through a personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. In her impeccably researched narrative--a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood.--From publisher description.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594631883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Using the life and career of her father, writer Margaret Talbot tells the story of the rise of popular culture through a personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. In her impeccably researched narrative--a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood.--From publisher description.
12 Entertainers Who Changed the World
Author: M. J. York
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645823254
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Showcases the work and achievements of 12 of the world's most influential entertainers. Each spread contains fascinating facts about each entertainer and how their accomplishments helped change the world"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645823254
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Showcases the work and achievements of 12 of the world's most influential entertainers. Each spread contains fascinating facts about each entertainer and how their accomplishments helped change the world"--
Hope
Author: Richard Zoglin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439140278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Chronicles the life and career of comedian, actor, and entertainer Bob Hope.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439140278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Chronicles the life and career of comedian, actor, and entertainer Bob Hope.
Confessions of a Serial Entertainer
Author: Steven Stolman
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 142363716X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Menus and anecdotes give away one man’s secrets for entertaining in style. Steven Stolman has a gregarious personality. He loves to entertain: cocktail parties in Palm Beach, football game-day gatherings in Wisconsin, family Passover Sedars in Connecticut, and dinner parties in his New York apartment. “Of all our friends, we have the smallest places, yet we seem to do more entertaining than anyone.” It’s about the people and the food, he says. He also loves old community and church cookbooks from the 1950s to the ’70s. And these are his inspirations for party food: dips and cheese spreads with crackers, family recipes for delicious roasts, breakfast casseroles, and desserts. What Stolman confesses is that he hates hostess gifts and isn’t afraid to say so. He advises women not to take a purse to a party and just “tuck it behind here” to avoid holding it—thanks for ruining my furniture arrangement! He advises about the importance of having silver serving pieces and how to dress for a cocktail party or a dinner party (at least try!). And he confesses that even when he has hired servers to pass hors d’oeuvres, he can’t help but carry a tray around himself! This book will give any novice party host ideas and confidence, and it will inspire seasoned hosts to simplify and enjoy the party. Steven Stolman is the author of 40 Years of Fabulous and Scalamandré: Haute Décor. He divides his time among homes in Palm Beach, New York, and Milwaukee.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 142363716X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Menus and anecdotes give away one man’s secrets for entertaining in style. Steven Stolman has a gregarious personality. He loves to entertain: cocktail parties in Palm Beach, football game-day gatherings in Wisconsin, family Passover Sedars in Connecticut, and dinner parties in his New York apartment. “Of all our friends, we have the smallest places, yet we seem to do more entertaining than anyone.” It’s about the people and the food, he says. He also loves old community and church cookbooks from the 1950s to the ’70s. And these are his inspirations for party food: dips and cheese spreads with crackers, family recipes for delicious roasts, breakfast casseroles, and desserts. What Stolman confesses is that he hates hostess gifts and isn’t afraid to say so. He advises women not to take a purse to a party and just “tuck it behind here” to avoid holding it—thanks for ruining my furniture arrangement! He advises about the importance of having silver serving pieces and how to dress for a cocktail party or a dinner party (at least try!). And he confesses that even when he has hired servers to pass hors d’oeuvres, he can’t help but carry a tray around himself! This book will give any novice party host ideas and confidence, and it will inspire seasoned hosts to simplify and enjoy the party. Steven Stolman is the author of 40 Years of Fabulous and Scalamandré: Haute Décor. He divides his time among homes in Palm Beach, New York, and Milwaukee.
Judy Garland
Author: John Fricke
Publisher: M J F Books
ISBN: 9781567312041
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The diminutive performer with the unique magical effect on audiences remains the stuff of legend more than twenty years after her death. Her magic is captured in this magnificent book, graced with 600 photographs, many never before seen.
Publisher: M J F Books
ISBN: 9781567312041
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The diminutive performer with the unique magical effect on audiences remains the stuff of legend more than twenty years after her death. Her magic is captured in this magnificent book, graced with 600 photographs, many never before seen.
Entangled Entertainers
Author: Klaus Hödl
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178920030X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city’s persistent bouts of antisemitism. This fascinating study explores how Jewish artists, performers, and impresarios reacted to prejudice, showing how they articulated identity through performative engagement rather than anchoring it in origin and descent. In this way, they attempted to transcend a racialized identity even as they indelibly inscribed their Jewish existence into the cultural history of the era.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178920030X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city’s persistent bouts of antisemitism. This fascinating study explores how Jewish artists, performers, and impresarios reacted to prejudice, showing how they articulated identity through performative engagement rather than anchoring it in origin and descent. In this way, they attempted to transcend a racialized identity even as they indelibly inscribed their Jewish existence into the cultural history of the era.
The Entertainer
Author: John Osborne
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
ISBN: 9780573112065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This play about the life and work of a second-rate music hall comic (brilliantly created by Sir Laurence Olivier in the original production) and staged only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, secured John Osborne's reputation and has become a classic of 20th century drama.
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
ISBN: 9780573112065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This play about the life and work of a second-rate music hall comic (brilliantly created by Sir Laurence Olivier in the original production) and staged only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, secured John Osborne's reputation and has become a classic of 20th century drama.
Werner's Directory of Elocutionists, Readers, Lecturers and Other Public Instructors and Entertainers ...
Author: Elsie M. Wilbor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocutionists
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocutionists
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Josephine Baker
Author: Alan Schroeder
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438100868
Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
* Critically acclaimed biographies of history's most notable African-Americans * Straightforward and objective writing * Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia * Essential for multicultural studies
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438100868
Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
* Critically acclaimed biographies of history's most notable African-Americans * Straightforward and objective writing * Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia * Essential for multicultural studies
How to Make Money Making Movies
Author: Tanya York
Publisher: Wbusiness Books
ISBN: 9780832950209
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If you have ever made a YouTube video or played around with your home camera and have considered the production of a film, How to Make Money Making Movies is for you. All the ins and outs, benefi ts and terrors of making independent movies and the industry make for a humorous and sometimes outrageously opinionated book. Learn how the distribution of one of the world's most glamorous industries works and how best to succeed in it. Go through the film making process from story development to movie release and avoid the pit falls most film makers fall into. These are the realities of the business where the show must go on.
Publisher: Wbusiness Books
ISBN: 9780832950209
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If you have ever made a YouTube video or played around with your home camera and have considered the production of a film, How to Make Money Making Movies is for you. All the ins and outs, benefi ts and terrors of making independent movies and the industry make for a humorous and sometimes outrageously opinionated book. Learn how the distribution of one of the world's most glamorous industries works and how best to succeed in it. Go through the film making process from story development to movie release and avoid the pit falls most film makers fall into. These are the realities of the business where the show must go on.