Description
Detailed, deeply researched, and compelling. --Chicago Tribune
Historian Leslie Zemeckis reveals the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon--icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance. Nearly one hundred years later, both women come alive again.
Author: Leslie Zemeckis
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781640092655
ISBN10: 164009265X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Historian Leslie Zemeckis reveals the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon--icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance. Nearly one hundred years later, both women come alive again.
Author: Leslie Zemeckis
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781640092655
ISBN10: 164009265X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
About the Author
Leslie Zemeckis is the author of Behind the Burly Q, the definitive history of burlesque. She wrote/produced/directed the critically acclaimed documentary based on the book, which has been championed by USA Today and The New Yorker. Behind the Burly Q has just been optioned for a television series and a pilot is under-development. She released Bound by Flesh, a multi-award winning documentary about vaudeville Siamese twin superstars Daisy and Violet Hilton, in 2014. She is an actress and filmmaker.