Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl - Brossura

Graham, Marjorie; Murphy, Clive

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ISBN 10: 1447243889 ISBN 13: 9781447243885

Casa editrice: Pan Books Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

The touching, true story of a young 1920s flapper who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl

Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill. I played Principal Boy in her place. At last! MARJORIE GRAHAM was all alone in electric lights outside the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh!

Born into an ordinary Edinburgh family in 1904, Marjorie Graham was expected to grow up like any other respectable girl. But her childhood dance classes with friends instilled a burning desire in her: to be a star. She couldn’t have chosen a better time. As the roaring twenties of jazz, Gatsby, and glamour flared into life, young Marjorie got her first break as a chorus girl. But the glamour of being a "flapper" brought with it hidden dangers, an altogether darker world of failed love affairs, poverty, and addiction to drink... From chorus girl, to actress, to raconteur, and everything in between, this is the touching, tragic story of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary zest for life, whose name was destined to be up in lights.

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Recensione:

‘Deeply moving and authentic, and compulsive reading. [Marjorie’s story] has the full gloom of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station and the precariousness of being alive.’ John Betjeman ‘A dancing, easyish, drinking lady whose fate it was never quite to get through . . . [Reading Marjorie is] ‘like eating meringues sprayed with “Evening in Paris”.’ --Ronald Blythe

Descrizione del libro:

The touching true story of a young 1920s ‘flapper’, who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl

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• Editore: Pan Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1447243889
• ISBN 13: 9781447243885
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 152