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Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow
Oxford University Press
ISBN13:
9780190639044
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Best remembered for his role as the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM musical The Wizard of Oz, Ray Bolger led a rich and extraordinary career in the decade before and more than four decades after the creation of the film. Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow is the first biography of this classic American entertainer, covering the luminous and forgotten career of the eccentric dancer outside of his burlap mask. The product of a fragmented, working-class Boston Irish family, Bolger learned tap and eccentric dance steps as solace for a difficult life before running away to repertory theater and Vaudeville. From there, he would go on to become a Broadway star, a contract player at Hollywood's major studios, one of the first performers to tour the South Pacific for the USO, a Tony Award winner, an early sitcom star, and the opening headliner of the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. Using unprecedented access to Bolger's papers and many never-before-published photographs, Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow pieces together the lost story of an itinerant hoofer who survived and thrived during the major media changes of the twentieth century and established himself as a staple of American pop culture.
- | Author: Holly Van Leuven
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: March 08, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0190639040
- | ISBN-13: 9780190639044
- Author:
- Holly Van Leuven
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:
- March 08, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 256 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0190639040
- ISBN-13:
- 9780190639044