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The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville Hardcover - 2012

by Anthony Slide


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The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography.

Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as "The I Don't Care Girl," male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of "freak" acts.

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  • Title The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville
  • Author Anthony Slide
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 630
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Date 2012-03-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781617032493 / 1617032492
  • Weight 2.29 lbs (1.04 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.38 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Entertainers - United States, Vaudeville - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011027304
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.709

About the author

Anthony Slide has written and edited more than two hundred books on the history of popular entertainment. He is a pioneer in the documentation of women in silent film, writing the first biography of Lois Weber, editing the memoirs of Alice Guy Blach, and authoring the first study of women silent film directors. Lillian Gish called him "our preeminent film historian of the silent era."
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