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Bird, Sarah

Summary: "Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIR

Wilson, Kip

Summary: On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIL

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIL

Emery, Mac.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. 1920

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Weiss, Elizabeth

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her twin sister, Josie. As "The Sisters Sweet," they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious father and managed by their practical mother, who were once theatrical stars in their own rights. Then, in an explosive act, Josie exposes the fraud in a spectacular fashion and runs away to Hollywood. The family...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Summary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: A musical comedy based on the life of vaudevillian Eddie Foy. When Eddie's wife dies, leaving him with seven children, he puts the kids into the act and takes the show on the road.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Brentwood Home Video 2000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic Seven

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEV

Fay, Juliette

Summary: "Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudevile, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure--and a last-ditch effort to save their family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FAY

Phelan, Matt

Summary: Henry bonds with a young Buster Keaton over games of baseball while the latter summers locally with a troupe of vaudeville performers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHE

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PHE

Summary: The tale of Rupert, a trained squirrel, who unknowingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arnold Leibovit Entertainment 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRE

Fay, Juliette

Summary: "In 1919, the four Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping along. Their father is a low-paid boot stitcher in Johnson City, NY, and the Turners are always one paycheck away from eviction. When their father's hand is crushed and he's forced to quit, their domineering mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their best--and only--chance for salvation. With everything at stake, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAY

Trav S. D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 TRA

Summary: From the streets and taverns of colonial America, in vaudeville, on television and under the bright lights of today's Broadway stage, puppets have been a favorite form of American entertainment. This documentary is the first to chronicle the fascinating evolution of this unique art form. Examines the lives and recounts the significant contributions of men and women who, throughout the years,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mazzarella Media 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

Cambron, Kristy

Summary: "Harry Houdni's one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them . . . or silence her before she can reveal them on her own"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 AME

Summary: A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FUN

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FUN

Summary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Atkins, Chet.

Contents: Summertime -- Cajun stripper -- Vaudeville daze -- Here we are -- The claw -- First born -- Major attempt at a minor thing -- Gibson girl -- Sneakin' around -- Nifty fifties -- Here comes that girl.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ATK

Lee, Gypsy Rose

Summary: This autobiography follows Gypsy Rose Lee from her childhood in vaudeville to her career as the queen of burlesque.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frog, Ltd. 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, GYPSY ROSE LEE

Ackerman, Karen

Summary: Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988

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Grey, Mini.

Summary: Having run away together, the Dish and the Spoon from the nursery rhyme "The Cat and the Fiddle" become vaudeville stars before turning to a life of crime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GRE

Summary: An aging ex-vaudeville child star initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled sister, a former movie-queen of the 1930's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WHA

Summary: Chronicles the showbiz career of Rose Marie, from her start at the age of 4 on her NBC radio show, through Vaudeville, Vegas and several television shows.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAI

Kelly, Gene

Summary: A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudeville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIN

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIN RATED PG

Zoglin, Richard.

Summary: Draws on exclusive reporting to honor Bob Hope's top-rated successes while discussing such topics as his secret first marriage, stint in reform school, and ambivalent relationships with fellow stars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOPE, BOB ZOG

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