Mae West and the Count

2019-03-20 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Guido Roberto Deiro
Release : 2019-03-20
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 647/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mae West and the Count written by Guido Roberto Deiro. This book was released on 2019-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mae West & The Count takes you inside Mae's relationship with the man who launched her career and stole her heart. Set in the first half of the 20th Century, this is the heretofore untold story of the torrid romance, lust-filled five-year marriage, and entwined show business careers of the Vaudeville headliner "Deiro" and the "Queen of Camp" Mae West. Unpublicized by mutual agreement, the improbable, humorous, and often heartbreaking, personal and professional relationship between the Italian nobleman, who rose to "rock-star" fame, and the Brooklyn-born fifth-grade dropout who became a show business legend and an icon of sexual freedom, is intimately and elegantly exposed in this volume. "I couldn't help myself - "D" was an amazing lover. The sex thing was terrific with this guy. I wanted to do it morning, noon and night, and that's all I wanted to do. " -Mae West, Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (1959). "It went very deep, hittin' on all the emotions. You can't get too hot over anybody unless there's somethin' that goes along with the sex act, can you?" -Mae West, Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (1959).

Three Plays by Mae West

2013-01-11 Drama

Author : Lillian Schlissel
Release : 2013-01-11
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 982/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Three Plays by Mae West by : Lillian Schlissel

Download or read book Three Plays by Mae West written by Lillian Schlissel. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer. In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West's career to the fore by offering for the first time in book form, three of the plays West wrote in the 1920s--Sex (1926), The Drag (1927) and Pleasure Man (1928). With an insightful introduction by Schlissel, this book offers a unique look into to the life and early career of this legendary stage and screen actress.

Mae West

2003-04-17 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jill Watts
Release : 2003-04-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 716/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mae West written by Jill Watts. This book was released on 2003-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her death, the actress and author is still regarded as the pop archetype of sexual wantonness and ribald humor. But who was this saucy starlet, a woman who was controversial enough to be jailed, pursued by film censors and banned from the airwaves for the revolutionary content of her work, and yet would ascend to the status of film legend? Sifting through previously untapped sources, author Jill Watts unravels the enigmatic life of Mae West, tracing her early years spent in the Brooklyn subculture of boxers and underworld figures, and follows her journey through burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway and, finally, Hollywood, where she quickly became one of the big screen's most popular--and colorful--stars. Exploring West's penchant for contradiction and her carefully perpetuated paradoxes, Watts convincingly argues that Mae West borrowed heavily from African American culture, music, dance and humor, creating a subversive voice for herself by which she artfully challenged society and its assumptions regarding race, class and gender. Viewing West as a trickster, Watts demonstrates that by appropriating for her character the black tradition of double-speak and "signifying," West also may have hinted at her own African-American ancestry and the phenomenon of a black woman passing for white. This absolutely fascinating study is the first comprehensive, interpretive account of Mae West's life and work. It reveals a beloved icon as a radically subversive artist consciously creating her own complex image.

Complete Works of Guido Deiro

2010-10-07 Music

Author : Henry Doktorski
Release : 2010-10-07
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 821/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Complete Works of Guido Deiro by : Henry Doktorski

Download or read book Complete Works of Guido Deiro written by Henry Doktorski. This book was released on 2010-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count Guido Deiro (1886-1950), Italian-born composer and accordion virtuoso. Deiro was a major force in the popularization of the accordion in the early 20th century. Concert accordionist and scholar Henry Doktorski has transcribed and edited all of Deiro's original music for accordion-45 pieces including waltzes, rags, marches, polkas, fox trots, tangos, and popular Deiro favorites: My Florence Waltz, Egypto Fantasia, Sharpshooter's March, and the Broadway hit, Kismet.A lengthy essay and rare photos from the Deiro family archive complete the 192-page book.

Mae West

2007-06-07

Author : Tommy Redolfi
Release : 2007-06-07
Genre :
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Download or read book Mae West written by Tommy Redolfi. This book was released on 2007-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mae West est le premier " sex symbol " du cinéma. Après des débuts remarqués au théâtre, dans des vaudevilles burlesques, dans lesquels elle affirme son goût prononcé pour la provocation et l'humour licencieux - notamment dans sa première pièce Sex qui lui coûta huit jours d'emprisonnement - elle conquiert Hollywood. Accumuler les scandales, ne fait qu'accroître sa popularité et l'encourage à détourner plus encore les règles de la morale et de la décence. Mais outre ses conflits avec la censure, Hollywood se souviendra surtout d'elle pour sa joie de vivre, son incapacité à se soumettre aux règles, sa beauté particulière et surtout sa contribution à l'émancipation sexuelle des femmes.

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