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Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box The Lady of the Jewel Box a film by Michelle Parkerson
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- DeLarverié, Stormé, 1920-2014.
- DeLarverié, Stormé.
- Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street).
- Jewel Box Revue.
- African American entertainers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- African American entertainers.
- Cross-dressers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Cross-dressers.
- Male impersonators--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Male impersonators.
- Masters of ceremonies--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Masters of ceremonies.
- Musical theater--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Musical theater.
- Singers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Singers.
- Women singers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Women singers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (21 min.)
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] Women Make Movies 2022
- Summary:
- "It ain't easy...being green" is the favorite expression of Storme DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions of gender and race. During the 1950's and 60's she toured the black theater circuit as a mistress of ceremonies and the sole male impersonator of the legendary Jewel Box Revue, America's first integrated female impersonation show and forerunner of La Cage aux Folles. The multiracial revue was a favorite act of the Black theater circuit and attracted mixed mainstream audiences from the 1940s through the 1960s, a time marked by the violence of segregation. Parkerson finds Storme in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, now working as a bodyguard at a women's bar and still singing in her deep silky voice with an "all girl" band. Through archival clips from the past, STORME looks back on the grandeur of the Jewel Box Revue and its celebration of pure entertainment in the face of homophobia and segregation. Storme herself emerges as a remarkable woman, who came up during hard times but always "kept a touch of class"
- Participant:
- Featuring Stormé DeLarverié, Bobby Schiffman, Joan Nestle.
- Credits:
- Directors of photography, Mike Boyer, Charles Mahorney ; post-production editor, Frank Fernandez, Jr.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen.
- OCLC:
- 1369209206
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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