Stories of the Jazz Age
Showgirls, Silent Movie Stars, and Other Spectacular Women
Featured essay
Audrey Munson: The First Supermodel
America’s first supermodel wasn’t Janice Dickinson. It was Audrey Munson, the most copied model in New York, whose life story ran under her byline in a twenty-part 1921 newspaper serial.
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Essays on the visual and performing culture of the Jazz Age.
- 16 Forgotten Silent Film Stars
- The First Flapper Was a Schoolgirl—Until Hollywood Grew Her Up
- Beauty, Aspiration, and Commerce: My Alfred Cheney Johnston Article in Afterimage
- Hilda Ferguson: The Ziegfeld Follies’ “Shimmy Queen”
- The Ziegfeld Follies: Revolutionizing Broadway, Hollywood, and Culture
- The “Exotic” Dancer Who Almost Thrilled the Ziegfeld Follies
- What Was Salomania? America’s Salome Dance Craze
- Alfred Cheney Johnston: The Photographer Who Glorified the Ziegfeld Girl
- Louise Brooks Arrives in New York: Awkwardness Beneath the Bold Beauty
- Mary Nolan: Tragic Ziegfeld Beauty
Books
Bill LeFurgy is the author of Louise Brooks: A Life in Pictures, Ziegfeld Girls and the Birth of Hollywood Glamour, Sex, Art, and Salome, and the Baltimore mystery Into the Suffering City.