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Broadway Babylon : glamour, glitz, and gossip on the Great White Way /

Hadleigh, authority on celebrity gossip, turns to Broadway to examine its juiciest scandals, secrets, flops and feuds. Discerning fact from rumor, quoting hundreds of players, and revealing the stories behind over a century of major headlines. Personalities include Ethel Merman, Tennessee Williams,...

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Main Author: Hadleigh, Boze (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Back Stage Books, 2007.
Subjects:
Theater > New York (State) > New York > Anecdotes.
Theater > New York (State) > New York > Quotations, maxims, etc.
Actors > New York (State) > New York > Quotations.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Gossip > New York (State) > New York.
Actors.
Theater.
New York (State) > New York.
Anecdotes.
Quotations.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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Summary:Hadleigh, authority on celebrity gossip, turns to Broadway to examine its juiciest scandals, secrets, flops and feuds. Discerning fact from rumor, quoting hundreds of players, and revealing the stories behind over a century of major headlines. Personalities include Ethel Merman, Tennessee Williams, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Jerry Herman, Jerome Robbins, Lucille Ball, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Bette Davis.--From publisher description.
Item Description:The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
Physical Description:viii, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index.
ISBN:9780823088300
0823088308