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"Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style twenty years old, living and working...
3) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A musical drama about an American girl who dreams of becoming a star while working as a singer in a third-rate cabaret in Germany on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.
Publisher
White Star
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
"... Sit back, relax, and get ready to enjoy a great evening of good old-fashioned comedy that will bring you back to the golden yearso fo the Catskills. Nothing in this world (or any other world) could make you feel better!"--Container.
7) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
8) Paris 36
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Français
Description
In 1936, the owner of a small vaudeville house in the Faubourg district of Paris faces work challenges from a local labor organizer and personal struggles with his wife and family.
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Ranging from the 1880s to the 1960s, this richly illustrated history of cafés, cabarets and clubs in modern art includes both famed and little-known sites of the avant-garde. Organised by city, 'Into the Night' presents an exhilarating journey into a selection of social spaces across the world, from New York to Tehran, Paris, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Vienna, Ibadan and beyond. Bringing together painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, performance,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 896
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Polish
Description
Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world. The girls' bond is tested and their survival threatened after one sister falls for a human.
13) Victor, Victoria
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A woman singer masquerades as a man impersonating a woman in Paris, circa 1934. This brings her success in her professional life but complicates her personal life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oberon Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight is the night she'll fall in love...with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler, a girl who wears trousers. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await"--
Author
Series
Library of America volume 313
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, dramatize the longings and dashed hopes of...
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English
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"Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem's legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox's definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo. Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers who performed there, have led the way in the presentation of swing, bebop, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk and hip-hop-along with the latest in dance and...