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Murray's Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho's Secret - Hardcover

Levy, Benjamin

 
9780750991322: Murray's Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho's Secret
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0750991321 ISBN 13: 9780750991322
Verlag: The History Press Ltd, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Today, 16-18 Beak Street is a burger bar. But don t let the muddy grey of the whitewashed oak walls deceive you they once shimmered as they reflected the sparkle of costumed showgirls dancing. For this was Murray s Cabaret Club, a West End club that, night after night, forged fantasies for deadened aristocrats, served a dish of dreams to Arab businessmen, and provided refuge for the hounded celebrity. In that intimate nightspot, sexy was never sordid, and nude never naked. That is, until the Profumo Affair a sex-and-spying scandal that involved a love triangle between Murray s showgirl Christine Keeler, the UK s Minister of War and a Soviet spy, all at the height of the Cold War. Soho's Secret tells of Murray's visitors (Jean Harlow, Princess Margaret, Winston Churchill, Stephen Ward…), its dancers (Kay Kendall, Gertrude Lawrence, Ruth Ellis…), and for the very first time reveals the recently-discovered costumes and designs worn in London s most glamorous floorshow. Close your eyes and imagine

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Benjamin Levy is a former curatorial assistant in the V&A's Theatre & Performance Department. In that capacity, he helped mount a variety of exhibitions, including You Say You Want a Revolution? and Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, which sold in the hundreds of thousands and has toured the world. He independently created his own exhibitions, one of which was on Murray&;s Cabaret Club, which sold out and for which he has appeared in the media and on the lecture circuit.

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Verlag
The History Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0750991321
ISBN 13 
9780750991322
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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