Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema

by Linda Mizejewski

Book Overview

In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture-as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s renowned revues, which ran on Broadway from 1907 to 1931, the Ziegfeld Girl has appeared in her trademark feather headdresses, parading and posing, occasionally singing and dancing, in numerous musicals and musical films paying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323230
• ISBN13: 9780822323235
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.8"