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  title info:
    title: Passing performances
    sub title: queer readings of leading players in American theater history
  name:
    name part: Schanke, Robert A.
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Marra, Kim
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Dolan, Jill
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biography.
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 1998
    copyright date: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Publisher description: Passing Performances gathers a range of critical and biographical essays on notable personalities whose major contributions to the stage occurred before 1969, the year of the Stonewall riots that kicked off the gay rights movement in the United States. How these theater practitioners variously "passed"-- i.e., managed unconventional sexual inclinations both on- and offstage--significantly determined the course of their personal and professional lives and thus the course of U.S. theater history. The actors, directors, producers, and agents examined here include Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, and Adah Isaacs Menken, whose personal lives and careers traded on the same-sex erotics of "true love" in the antebellum period Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Elsie Janis, Nance O'Neil, and Alla Nazimova, whose intimate female liaisons were variously interpreted around the turn of the century the "lavender marriages" of Alfred Lunt to Lynne Fontanne and Guthrie McClintic to Katharine Cornell the lesbian collaborations of Margaret Webster and Cheryl Crawford the comic antics of Monty Woolley, which negotiated codified constructions of homosexual perversion in the post-Freudian interwar years and the on- and offstage performances of Mary Martin and Joe Cino, which resisted the paranoid enforcements of heterosexual normality in the McCarthy era. Central to these investigations are the complex connections of performances of sexuality and gender and their different implications for men and women practitioners working under pervasive sexism and homophobia. The volume also includes striking archival photographs of the performers and their performances, and an index to facilitate the cross-referencing of subjects' intersecting careers.
  table of contents: Introduction / Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra -- "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand -- "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. Walen -- Bohemian on horseback: Adah Isaacs Menken / Noreen Barnes-McClain -- Rebels of their sex: Nance O'Neil and Lizzie Borden / Jennifer Jones -- A lesbian marriage of cultural consequence: Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, 1886-1933 / Kim Marra -- Alla Nazimova: "the witch of makeup" / Robert A. Schanke -- Elsie Janis: "a comfortable goofiness" / Lee Alan Morrow -- Staging heterosexuality: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's design for living / Sam Abel -- Kit and Guth: a lavender marriage on Broadway / Lesley Ferris -- Webster without tears: a daughter's journey / Milly S. Barranger -- Cheryl Crawford: one not so naked individual / Jay Plum -- Monty Woolley: the public and private man from Saratoga Springs / Billy J. Harbin -- Mary Martin: washin' that man right outta her hair / Stacy Wolf -- Joseph Cino and the first off-off broadway theater / Douglas W. Gordy.
  note: edited by Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra ; foreword by Jill Dolan.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed by Schanke.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Gay actors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Lesbian actresses
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Passing (Identity)
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gays in the performing arts
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality and theater
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Acteurs homosexuels
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Gay actors
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Schauspieler
  subject:
    topic: Homosexualität
  subject:
    topic: Biografie
  subject:
    topic: Toneelvoorstellingen
  subject:
    topic: Acteren
  subject:
    topic: Homoseksualiteit
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  classification: PN2286.5 .P37 1998
  classification: 792/.028/08664
  classification: B
  classification: 24.11
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  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/98019710.html
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    location:
      url: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/98019710.html
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 980421
    record change date: 20230406154114.2
    record identifier: in00001465828
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng