Stories of the Jazz Age
Showgirls, Silent Movie Stars, and Other Spectacular Women
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Hilda Ferguson
The Ziegfeld Follies’ “shimmy queen”—blonde darling of the underworld, tangled in an unsolved murder and dead at thirty.
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Essays on the visual and performing culture of the Jazz Age.
- Alfred Cheney Johnston: Why the Surprising Nude Photographs?
- The Ziegfeld Follies: Revolutionizing Broadway, Hollywood, and Culture
- The “Exotic” Dancer Who Almost Thrilled the Ziegfeld Follies
- Salomania: A Sensational History of Salome in Art, Dance, Film, and Opera
- Louise Brooks Arrives in New York: Awkwardness Beneath the Bold Beauty
- Brothel Scandal Exposed: Baltimore’s Hidden Sex Trade in 1916
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