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"This biography recounts the early life of this superstar as well as her coronation on Broadway, her work in silent film, and her sexual liaisons. It also covers her eventual disappearance from public life, her alcoholism and her death, which went largely unnoticed. The book includes first-hand personal anecdotes and observations from recently discovered tapes"--Provided by publisher.
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Lillian Lorraine: the life and times of a Ziegfeld diva
2011, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
in English
0786464070 9780786464074
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Table of Contents
The trunk
The early years
Coast to coast
Broadway bound
The promoter
Ill-fated triangle
The breakthrough: up, up and away-with Sophie
Affair of the necklace
Enter Bert Williams, Fanny Brice and the blonde venus
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1910-Atlantic City and beyond
Enter Nanny Johnson, my mother
PR woes and the Denver caper
Anna-Liane-Flo: the Ansonia
Canadian getaway
A split and trouble in paradise
Ziegfeld vs. Gresheimer
Catch-up time on the Rumon Mill
Live reflections
Enter Billie Burke and the ghost of the New Amsterdam
Lillian, on her own
Ziegfeldian potpourri
Hollywood beckons
The Broadway fast track and Ziegfeld's frolic
The follies of 1918
Ziegfeld's roof garden and Lillian's blue devil
Detour and scandal on the fast track
Marilyn Miller and Frank Carter-Broadway's golden couple
Lillian faces financial ruin and a fleeting comeback
Dimming footlights and the Bessie Poole affair
End of an era and beyond
Frazzled silver lining
Lillian hits the skids-Ziegfeld redux
Excommunication
Final curtain-oblivion
Coda to Lillian and her times
Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
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