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Las Vegas (Nev.) Fiction Meurtre Romans, nouvelles, etc Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Drama Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction Organized crime Fiction Sisters Fiction Sœurs Romans, nouvelles, etc Young women FictionFilter By Subjects
Las Vegas (Nev.) Fiction Meurtre Romans, nouvelles, etc Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Drama Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction Organized crime Fiction Sisters Fiction Sœurs Romans, nouvelles, etc Young women FictionSummary: A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIMPython, Monty.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1976
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As World War II ends, thousands of British soldiers get 'demobbed', demobilized and sent back into civilian life. Among them are Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson. Deasey and Dobson have had a 'good war, ' much of it spent entertaining the troops with their bawdy stage routines. But after serving four years in the North African desert, they find it hard to adjust to peacetime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEMSummary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Fox, Ted
Summary: "Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem's legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox's definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo. Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers who performed there, have led the way in the presentation of swing, bebop, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 792.09 FOXBohjalian, Chris
Summary: "The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHWilson, 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
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILO'Hara, John
Summary: Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHABurton, Tara Isabella
Summary: "Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who fell followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Andrews, Julie.
Summary: A woman singer masquerades as a man impersonating a woman in Paris, circa 1934. This brings her success in her professional life but complicates her personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000