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"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 cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Leuven, Holly (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Bolger, Ray.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Dancers > United States > Biography.
Singers > United States > Biography.
Actors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Dancers.
Singers.
United States.
Biographies.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The timeless wanderer
  • "What will you be? It's up to you!"
  • Entering show business
  • Steppin' in society
  • Depression days
  • Broadway goes west
  • Jupiter forbid
  • Soldiers in greasepaint
  • Where's Charley?
  • The new triple threat man
  • All American
  • Epilogue: No sad songs.