Queen of Vaudeville The Story of Eva Tanguay

Name: Queen of Vaudeville The Story of Eva Tanguay
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ISBN: 9780801449703

ISBN-10: 0801449707

ISBN-13: 9780801449703

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrew L. Erdman

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In 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 1930s, 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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Andrew L. Erdman is the author of Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass Marketing of Entertainment, 1895-1915 . He lives in New York City.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Most Famous Performer in America



Freak Baby and the Paper City



The Sambo Girl in New York



I Don't Care



The Cyclonic Comedienne; or, Genius Properly Advertised



Riding Salome to the Top



Rivals, Imitators, and Censors



Follies and Fortunes



Men and Other Travails



Mrs. John Ford



The Wild Girl



Knockdowns and Comebacks …and Knockdowns



Death and Other Endings


Epilogue: George Jessel and Darryl Zanuck Don't Care


Eva Tanguay Chronology


Notes


Sources and Select Bibliography


Index