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19 Cards in this Set
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George & Ira Gershwin
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Bron in Brooklyn
Parents were Russian Jew immigrants minstrels of jazz age NYC melting pot very drawn to black culture used a lot of "black" music and ethnic typing first musical "Lady Be Good" |
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Fred Astaire
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1899-1987
got start from Gerswhin Musical from Midwest parents were Austrian Jews went on tour with Orphium Circuit famous for tap and ballroom initially made success on broadway instinctively knew how to communicate on film never went back to stage |
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Ginger Rogers
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did 6 or 7 films with Fred Astaire
gave women a different kind of voice "Top Hat" and "Gold Diggers of 1933" |
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Ethel Waters
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sung "Heat Wave" by Irving Berlin
famous black performer in white shows great singer/dancer, blues music higly celebrated dramatic actress |
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Orson Welles
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head of directing wing of Federal Theater
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Fanny Brice
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Yiddish performer
comedic star unlikely star used physical slapstick comedy |
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Burt Williams
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in Ziegeld Follies
performed in Blackface African American In Da Homey "Nobody" |
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Cole Porter
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1891-1964
rich midwestern Episcopallian married a woman though he was gay composer and lyricist career btween 30s and 40s wrote 30 musicals in 30 years horrible horse riding accident crushed his legs known more for his songs epitomized NY style in 1930s |
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Jerome Kern
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1885-1945
Born in NYC Jewish emigrant family composer NOT lyricist started as song plugger on Tin Pan Alley wrote about college because it was appealing songs were meant to be theatrical wrote for book shows princess theater (Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse) |
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John Housman
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producer from WPA Federal Theater
interesting in building programs became founding director of Juilliard acting program |
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Busby Berkely
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1 of most important film choreographers
cared less about actual dance and more about formations signature move is having camera above liked to photograph women's faces, pans down line of chorus girls |
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Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart
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went to Columbia University
Rogers composer/ Hart lyricist first generation Jews HEar optimism in their music Uses AMerican idioms HARt foes words, Gershwin does with music Rogers had a tendancy towards lush romanticism Hart was dark, sardonic and clever Rogers became famous for the waltz (carousel waltz) |
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Ethel Merman
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Made Broadway debut in "Girl Crazy" with song "I've Got Rhythm"
from Queens Asecretary sang at movie theaters new model for American Heroine didn't make it as a movie star |
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George Gershwin
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worked as song pusher in Tin Pan Alley
auditioned to be Irving Berlins assisstant, told him to go write transforming ragtime into jazz died to unexpected brain tumor sophisticated composer inventing american music, sound and style one of the most frequently recorded composer of pop singers Rhapsody in Blue 1920 |
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Bessie Smith
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separatist
blues singer didnt want to sing for whites until Irving Berlin song |
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Florenz Ziefeld
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Glorifying the American Girl
impressario liked chorus girls presented most famous performers there were |
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Ira Gershwin
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lyricist
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Irving Berlin
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composer and lyricist
song pusher never learned how to read music told Gershwin to write his own songs King of Ragtime |
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Al Jolson
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major vaudville performer
performed in blackface made gerswhin song "Sweeny" popular |
