Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9780190639051
ISBN-13 : 0190639059
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Book Synopsis Ray Bolger by : Holly Van Leuven

Download or read book Ray Bolger written by Holly Van Leuven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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