Queen of Vaudeville : The Story of Eva Tanguay
ISBN: 9780801449703 | 0801449707
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 9/11/2012
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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 suggestivel... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Most Famous Performer in America | p. 1 |
| Freak Baby and the Paper City | p. 21 |
| The Sambo Girl in New York | p. 47 |
| I Don't Care | p. 66 |
| The Cyclonic Comedienne; or, Genius Properly Advertised | p. 88 |
| Riding Salome to the Top | p. 106 |
| Rivals, Imitators, and Censors | p. 121 |
| Follies and Fortunes | p. 135 | ... MORE
| Men and Other Travails | p. 154 |
| Mrs. John Ford | p. 174 |
| The Wild Girl | p. 194 |
| Knockdowns and Comebacks …and Knockdowns | p. 206 |
| Death and Other Endings | p. 230 |
| Epilogue: George Jessel and Darryl Zanuck Don't Care | p. 244 |
| Eva Tanguay Chronology | p. 261 |
| Notes | p. 265 |
| Sources and Select Bibliography | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 303 |
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