Beautiful : the story of Julian Eltinge, America's greatest female impersonator /
From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a popular performance genre. Long before today's television shows, men in colleges, business, & even the military formed drag clubs & put on musicals and variety shows of all kinds with little fear of negative judg...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a popular performance genre. Long before today's television shows, men in colleges, business, & even the military formed drag clubs & put on musicals and variety shows of all kinds with little fear of negative judgment. But no female impersonator was as famous, successful, or highly-regarded as Julian Eltinge. Eltinge, born William Dalton just outside Boston, started playing female characters & imitating women with his mother's encouragement as a child while his father shuttled his family around the Americas in search of a mining fortune that never materialized. The future drag star returned to Boston in his late teens where he quickly rose through the ranks of semi-amateur all-male musicals, then moved on to vaudeville, & eventually starred in hugely successful musical comedies such as The Fascinating Widow (1910). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197696361 0197696368 9780197696347 0197696341 9780197696354 019769635X |