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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 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 With nineteen rare or previously unpublished images, Queen of Vaudeville is a dynamic portrait of a dazzling and unjustly forgotten show business star.

Vaudeville --- Femmes artistes du spectacle --- Women entertainers --- Variety shows (Theater) --- Variety-theaters --- Amusements --- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) --- Entertainers, Women --- Entertainers --- Histoire --- History --- Tanguay, Eva,

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Whites --- Racism in popular culture --- Minstrel shows --- Blackface entertainers --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- Popular culture --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- Race identity --- Social aspects --- History. --- United States --- Race relations --- American minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy, American --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows

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A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960's America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

Nineteen sixties. --- Popular culture --- Jews in popular culture --- Jewish entertainers --- Jewish athletes --- Jews in the performing arts --- 1960s --- 60s (Twentieth century decade) --- Sixties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- Entertainers --- Jewish theater --- Athletes --- Performing arts --- History

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Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers. His epic romance with Elizabeth Taylor, his legendary drinking and story-telling, his dazzling purchases (enormous diamonds, a jet, homes on several continents), and his enormous talent kept him constantly in the public eye. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity and struggled with the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight. This volume publishes Burton's extensive personal diaries in their entirety for the first time. His writings encompass many years-from 1939, when he was still a teenager, to 1983, the year before his death-and they reveal him in his most private moments, pondering his triumphs and demons, his loves and his heartbreaks. The diary entries appear in their original sequence, with annotations to clarify people, places, books, and events Burton mentions. From these hand-written pages emerges a multi-dimensional man, no mere flashy celebrity. While Burton touched shoulders with shining lights-among them Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Huston, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Albee-he also played the real-life roles of supportive family man, father, husband, and highly intelligent observer. His diaries offer a rare and fresh perspective on his own life and career, and on the glamorous decades of the mid-twentieth century.

Actors --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- Burton, Richard, --- Jenkins, Richard, --- Jenkins, Richard Walter, --- Jenkins, Richard

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Cette synthèse propose une réflexion sur l'ensemble des professions artistiques, techniques et administratives en arts du spectacle, médiation culturelle et communication.

Performing arts --- Entertainment events --- Entertainers --- Performing arts --- Arts du spectacle --- Spectacles et divertissements --- Artistes interprètes --- Arts du spectacle --- Vocational guidance --- Economic aspects --- Orientation professionnelle --- Aspect économique