Beautiful: the story of Julian Eltinge, America's greatest female impersonator

From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a popular performance genre. Long before today's television shows, men in colleges, business, & even the military formed drag clubs & put on musicals and variety shows of all kinds with little fear of negative judg...

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1. Verfasser: Erdman, Andrew L. 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a popular performance genre. Long before today's television shows, men in colleges, business, & even the military formed drag clubs & put on musicals and variety shows of all kinds with little fear of negative judgment. But no female impersonator was as famous, successful, or highly-regarded as Julian Eltinge. Eltinge, born William Dalton just outside Boston, started playing female characters & imitating women with his mother's encouragement as a child while his father shuttled his family around the Americas in search of a mining fortune that never materialized. The future drag star returned to Boston in his late teens where he quickly rose through the ranks of semi-amateur all-male musicals, then moved on to vaudeville, & eventually starred in hugely successful musical comedies such as The Fascinating Widow (1910)
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ISBN:9780197696361
DOI:10.1093/9780197696361.001.0001

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