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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIREmery, Mac.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. 1920
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWilson, 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...
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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 WILWeiss, Elizabeth
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEISummary: 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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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: 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
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Seven 1949Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEVFay, 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
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FAYSummary: 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
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GREPhelan, Matt
Summary: Henry bonds with a young Buster Keaton over games of baseball while the latter summers locally with a troupe of vaudeville performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PHEFay, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYTrav S. D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 TRASummary: 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 STOCambron, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMWheeler, Richard S.
Summary: "The story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHESummary: A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FUNAtkins, 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 ATKSummary: 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 GRELee, 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 LEEAckerman, 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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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACKGrey, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GRESummary: 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 WHAZoglin, 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 ZOGSummary: 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