Anna Held & Birth of Ziegfeld's (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121536)

" Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Époque, she epitomized everything that was glamorous, sophisticated, and suggestive about turn-of-the-century Broadway. Overcoming an impoverished life as an orphan to become a music-hall star in Paris, Held rocketed to fame in America. From 1896 to 1910, she starred in hit after

Author: Eve Golden
ISBN-10: 0813121531
ISBN-13: 9780813121536
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2000
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.25w x 1.07d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/13/2000 pg. 75
Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1310
Library Journal 04/01/2000 pg. 104
New York Times 05/14/2000 pg. 34
Choice 09/01/2000 pg. 134
Library Journal 03/15/2000