Name: Sophie Tucker: First Lady of Show Business
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Welcome to America
2 Breaking In
3 The Mary Garden of Ragtime (1)
4 The Mary Garden of Ragtime (2)
5 Vaudeville Stardom
6 Celebrating Cabarets
7 Risky Business
8 At the Top of Her Game
9 Burning Up the Boards
10 Honky Tonk
11 Escape to London
12 Looking Back Over Her Shoulder
13 The Labor Union Blues
14 Fast Becoming a Legend
15 The Glory Years
16 A Fabulous Character
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography and Source Material
Index

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Sophie Tucker appeared in only seven American stage musicals and appeared only twice on Broadway but, then, it was difficult to cast her in a show. A buxom and ebullient performer, she - and her audiences - quickly found that playing herself was most effective. This is a biography of a vaudeville and cabaret performer who saw herself as one of the first liberated women and one of the last ""red hot mamas."" It tells the story of her birth as her mother traveled to Boston from Russia, her childhood in Boston, and her first public performance at Poli's Vaudeville Theatre at the age of 13. It also tells the story of her troubled marriage to Louis Tuck and the birth of their son, her meeting with Willie Howard, a vaudeville veteran who encouraged her to go to New York and pursue a stage career, her discovery by Flo Ziegfeld (of the Ziegfeld Follies), and her rise to headliner status under the guidance of her agent William Morris. She was best known for appearing on stage with just a piano player, and openly discussing her life and Jewish upbringing.

ISBN: 9780786415779 (0786415770)

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