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With, or without, a song : a memoir

Title: With, or without, a song : a memoir / Edward Eliscu ; edited by David Eliscu.
Author: Eliscu, Edward, 1902-1998
Publication: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Eliscu, David.

Description

xviii, 284 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"With or Without a Song: A Memoir is a history spanning almost a hundred years. The author, Edward Eliscu, describes the course of his life from his family's emigration to America, his youth in New York City, his experiences in the pre-Borscht Belt Catskills and Broadway theatre of the 1920's and 30's. He traces his career as a songwriter in the pre-Tin Pan Alley era and describes encounters with such luminaries as Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Moss Hart, Leonard Sillman, Oscar Hammerstein, the Gershwins, and many others. Additionally, he details his careers and travels between East and West coast, including Hollywood in the 1930's and 40's, return to New York as a television writer, and his eventual recognition as a celebrity in the entertainment field."
"Edward Eliscu describes how he survived three blacklists, two in Hollywood, one in New York. He offers an insider's look at the quintessential Hollywood of the Depression and the 1930s, with anecdotes about such stellar players as George Cukor, Katherine Hepburn, Dore Schary, David O. Selznick, Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Tallulah Bankhead, Joseph Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, and Greta Garbo, and what it was like to work in the major Hollywood studios at that time."
"This book will be especially appreciated by students of the history of American entertainment and popular culture, particularly those interested in the American theatre, film and song writing industry. It will also be of interest to those studying the phenomenon of the American blacklist and the socially concerned artist's response to his political, economic and social environment."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Filmmakers series ; no. 86

Uniform Title

Filmmakers series ; no. 86.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

Includes index.

Contents

My Mother Should Have Been an Actress -- My Father Betrayed -- Kaddish -- My First Role -- I Am Anointed -- Milton and I Graduate -- Life in the Real World -- One Consecutive Performance -- The Heart of the Matter -- A Brown Derby for Versatility -- The Dybbuk Sentenced to Two Weeks in Chicago -- Hold Up -- The Almost Perfect Collaborator -- Small's Paradise and Back -- From Now On -- Injunction Over the Rainbow -- What Goes Round -- New Playwrights -- Great Day -- Ankle up the Altar -- Wehauken, Park Avenue, Times Square, and Twelfth Street -- RKO -- From Half Salary to No Salary -- Japan -- Shubert Ambassador -- The Silk Hat Kid -- The First Blacklist -- Good News -- Meet the People -- Hollywood, Hitler, and Marx -- World War II on the Home Front -- John Garfield Speaks Yiddish -- "There'll Never Be a Blacklist" -- Alice in Wonderland -- The Banker's Daughter -- Eastward, Ho! -- Lightning Strikes--Again -- Time for a Change -- A Billy Rose by Any Other Name -- I Read My Obituary -- Got It Made -- Wild Goose Chase -- A Place in the Country -- Dialogue with a Congressman -- A Decision Is Made -- Doing Something Right -- Third Reich -- Rewind and Play -- Reunited Front -- With or Without a Song.

ISBN

081084012X
9780810840126

LCCN

2001018882

OCLC

ocm45828983
45828983
SCSB-8875305

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library