LEADER 04614nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910461867703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6528-1 010 $a0-8014-6572-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801465727 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241390 035 $a(EBL)3138363 035 $a(OCoLC)922998304 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11467357 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10693226 035 $a(PQKB)11147797 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138363 035 $a(OCoLC)966847286 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51905 035 $a(DE-B1597)478323 035 $a(OCoLC)961513327 035 $a(OCoLC)979622590 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801465727 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138363 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10595489 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681622 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241390 100 $a20120321d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aQueen of vaudeville$b[electronic resource] $ethe story of Eva Tanguay /$fAndrew L. Erdman 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-50340-0 311 $a0-8014-4970-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Most Famous Performer in America --$t1. Freak Baby and the Paper City --$t2. The Sambo Girl in New York --$t3. I Don't Care --$t4. The Cyclonic Comedienne; or, Genius Properly Advertised --$t5. Riding Salome to the Top --$t6. Rivals, Imitators, and Censors --$t7. Follies and Fortunes --$t8. Men and Other Travails --$t9. Mrs. John Ford --$t10. The Wild Girl --$t11. Knockdowns and Comebacks . . . and Knockdowns --$t12. Death and Other Endings --$tEpilogue: George Jessel and Darryl Zanuck Don't Care --$tEva Tanguay Chronology --$tNotes --$tSources and Select Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn her day, Eva Tanguay (1879-1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the "I Don't Care Girl"-named after a song she popularized and her independent, even brazen persona-Tanguay established herself as a vaudeville and musical comedy star in 1904 with the New York City premiere of the show My Lady-and never looked back. Tanguay was, at the height of a long career that stretched until the early 1930's, a trend-setting performer who embodied the emerging ideal of the bold and sexual female entertainer. Whether suggestively singing songs with titles like "It's All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It" and "Go As Far As You Like" or wearing a daring dress made of pennies, she was a precursor to subsequent generations of performers, from Mae West to Madonna and Lady Gaga, who have been both idolized and condemned for simultaneously displaying and playing with blatant displays of female sexuality. In Queen of Vaudeville, Andrew L. Erdman tells Eva Tanguay's remarkable life story with verve. Born into the family of a country doctor in rural Quebec and raised in a New England mill town, Tanguay found a home on the vaudeville stage. Erdman follows the course of her life as she amasses fame and wealth, marries (and divorces) twice, engages in affairs closely followed in the press, declares herself a Christian Scientist, becomes one of the first celebrities to get plastic surgery, loses her fortune following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and receives her last notice, an obituary in Variety. The arc of Tanguay's career follows the history of American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Tanguay's appeal, so dependent on her physical presence and personal charisma, did not come across in the new media of radio and motion pictures. With nineteen rare or previously unpublished images, Queen of Vaudeville is a dynamic portrait of a dazzling and unjustly forgotten show business star. 606 $aWomen entertainers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aVaudeville$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen entertainers 615 0$aVaudeville$xHistory 676 $a791.092 676 $aB 700 $aErdman$b Andrew L.$f1965-$01044268 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461867703321 996 $aQueen of vaudeville$92469809 997 $aUNINA