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2001, c1984., General, MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Broadway Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Danny Rose is an unsuccessful Broadway agent, handling small-time vaudeville acts. He gets talked into escorting Tina, the mistress of his top act, to a show. Tina is also seeing a mob boss, who comes after Danny when he sees the two of them together.
![Broadway Danny Rose [DVD] (1983). Directed by Woody Allen](/Library/images/~imageCT74848.JPG "Broadway Danny Rose [DVD] (1983). Directed by Woody Allen")
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[2003]., General, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Funny G Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
![Funny girl [DVD] (1968). Directed by William Wyler.](/Library/images/~imageCT79828.JPG "Funny girl [DVD] (1968). Directed by William Wyler.")
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c2011., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic End Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. The girls, overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, are forced to make their living as a singing act after the untimely death of their father. They begin with little besides youth and hope, but Marina Endicott's genius is to show how the three girls slowly and steadily evolve into true artists even as they navigate their way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary characters <U+2013> some of them charming charlatans, some of them unpredictable eccentrics, and some of them just ordinary-seeming humans with magical gifts. Using her gorgeous prose and extraordinary insight, Endicott lures us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the little shadows that lurk behind the curtain, and reveals how the art of vaudeville -- in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow -- echoes the art of life itself."--Publisher.
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2021., The Dial Press Call No: Fic Wei Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 retreats to Chicago, where Harriet must figure out how to live out of the spotlight--and her sister's shadow. Striving to keep her struggling family afloat, Harriet molds herself into the perfect daughter. But she also begins to form her first relationships outside her family. As Josie's star rises and as the Szászes fall on hard times, Harriet must decide whether to honor her mother, her father, or the self she's only beginning to get to know. Full of long-simmering tensions, buried secrets, questionable saviors, and broken promises, this is ultimately a story about how we are beholden to others and what we owe ourselves, and heralds the arrival of an accomplished new voice in fiction.
