Ray Bolger
€ 37,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780190639044 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Holly Van Leuven |
| Editora | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Formato | Capa dura |
| Número de páginas | 256 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,510 |
| Data de Publicação | 25/04/2019 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 35,75 |
| Imposto | € 2,15 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 37,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 1 unidade em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
Best remembered for his role as the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM musical The Wizard of Oz, Ray Bolger led a rich and extraordinary career in the decade before and more than four decades after the creation of the film. Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow is the first biography of this classic American entertainer, covering the luminous and forgotten career of the eccentric dancer outside of his burlap mask. The product of a fragmented, working-class Boston Irish family, Bolger learned tap and eccentric dance steps as solace for a difficult life before running away to repertory theater and Vaudeville. From there, he would go on to become a Broadway star, a contract player at Hollywood''s major studios, one of the first performers to tour the South Pacific for the USO, a Tony Award winner, an early sitcom star, and the opening headliner of the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. Using unprecedented access to Bolger''s papers and many never-before-published photographs, Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow pieces together the lost story of an itinerant hoofer who survived and thrived during the major media changes of the twentieth century and established himself as a staple of American pop culture.