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  title info:
    title: Greasepaint Puritan
    sub title: Boston to 42nd Street in the queer backstage novels of Bradford Ropes
  name:
    name part: Cantu, Maya
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Each of Ropes's long-forgotten novels was inspired by his own experiences as a performer, and focused on the lives of gay men in show business, offering rare glimpses into backstage Broadway. But why did Ropes's body of work, and consequently his biographical footsteps, disappear into such obscurity? Greasepaint Puritan aims to find out and reclaim his story. Descended from Mayflower Pilgrims, Ropes rebelled against the "Proper Bostonian" life, in a career that touched upon the Jazz Age, American vaudeville and theater censorship. We follow Ropes's successful career as both a performer and the author of the trilogy of backstage novels, 42nd Street, Stage Mother and Go Into Your Dance. Populated by scheming stage mothers, precocious stage children, grandiose bit players and tart-tongued chorines, these novels centered on the lives and relationships of gay men on Broadway during the Jazz Age and Prohibition era. Rigorously researched, Greasepaint Puritan chronicles Ropes's career as a successful screenwriter in 1930s and '40s Hollywood, where he continued to be a part of a dynamic gay subculture within the movie industry before returning to obscurity in the 1950s. His legacy lives on in the Hollywood and Broadway incarnations of 42nd Street, but Greasepaint Puritan restores the "forgotten melody" of the man who first envisioned its colorful characters.
  note: Maya Cantu.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ropes, Bradford
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ropes, Bradford
  subject:
    topic: Gay men in literature
  subject:
    topic: Gay men and musicals
  subject:
    topic: Screenwriters
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Actors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  classification: PS3535.O6245 Z56 2024
  classification: 813/.52
  identifier: 9780472076574
  identifier: 0472076574
  identifier: 9780472056576
  identifier: 0472056573
  identifier: 9780472221431
  identifier: 0472221434
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 231109
    record change date: 20240513143409.9
    record identifier: in00004789526