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(0)Jerome Kern
1) Show boat
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The novel chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s. The story moves from the Reconstruction Era riverboat to Gilded Age Chicago to Roaring Twenties New York, and finally returns to the Mississippi River."--Back cover.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie Get Your Gun: Annie Oakley...
Author
Language
English
Description
The year was 1905, the name of the show was The Earl and the Girl, the hit tune was "How'd You Like to Spoon With Me?" and it started an unknown young songwriter named Jerome Kern on the road to success. Forty years and 1,000 songs later, at the time of his death, Jerome Kern was already a legend in Tin Pan Alley. Now the fantastic life story of this gentle little "music man" is told for the first time in a full-scale biography. David Ewen has painted...