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Heat wave : the life and career of Ethel Waters / Donald Bogle.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.W24 B64 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogle, Donald, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977.
- Waters, Ethel.
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- United States.
- African American singers--Biography.
- African American singers.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 624 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Life and career of Ethel Waters
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [2011]
- Summary:
- Traces Waters' life from her poverty-stricken childhood to her rise in show business; her career as one of the early blues and pop singers, with such hits as "Am I Blue?," "Stormy Weather," and "Heat Wave"; her success as an actress, appearing in such films and plays as The Member of the Wedding and Mamba's Daughters; and through her lonely, painful final years. Bogle illuminates Waters' turbulent private life, including her complicated feelings toward her mother and various lovers; her heated and sometimes well-known feuds with such entertainers as Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Lena Horne; and her tangled relationships with such legends as Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Harold Clurman, Elia Kazan, Count Basie, Darryl F. Zanuck, Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann, Moss Hart, and John Ford. In addition, Bogle explores the ongoing racial battles, growing paranoia, and midlife religious conversion of this talented woman while examining the significance of her highly publicized life to audiences unaccustomed to the travails of a larger-than-life African American woman. --From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Two women, two cities
- On the road
- The Big Apple
- Back in the city
- Broadway beckons
- Stretching boundaries: Hollywood and Europe
- Depression era blues, depression era heroine
- Broadway star
- A woman of the people, back on Broadway
- A chance encounter
- Waiting for Mamba
- Living high
- Mamba's daughters, at last
- Eddie
- On the run
- California dreaming
- Settling in
- The making of Cabin
- Aftermath
- Scandal
- An ill wind
- Coming back
- The long winter of her discontent
- A new day
- Life away from the team
- On her own again.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-590) and index.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction , Honor, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780061241734
- 0061241733
- OCLC:
- 641532167
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