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Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies
David C. Lightner
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Description for Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies
hardcover. The biography of the spunky "Song a Minute Girl," the first actress to have her spoken words censored Series: Hollywood Legends Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 43 b&w illustrations, filmography. BIC Classification: APB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in vaudeville and on Broadway. Then, at the dawn of the sound era, she became the first person in motion picture history to have her spoken words, the lyrics to a song, censored.
In Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies, David L. Lightner shows how Winnie Lightner's hilarious performance in the 1929 musical comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway made her an overnight sensation. She went on ... Read more
Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in vaudeville and on Broadway. Then, at the dawn of the sound era, she became the first person in motion picture history to have her spoken words, the lyrics to a song, censored.
In Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies, David L. Lightner shows how Winnie Lightner's hilarious performance in the 1929 musical comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway made her an overnight sensation. She went on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Hollywood Legends Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496809834
SKU
V9781496809834
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About David C. Lightner
David L. Lightner, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War; Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse: The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois; and Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, ... Read more
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