Joel Lobenthal: 3 books
Tallulah!
The Life and Times of a Leading Lady
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Outrageous, outspoken, and uninhibited, Tallulah Bankhead was an actress known as much for her vices -- cocaine, alcohol, hysterical tirades, and scandalous affairs with both men and women -- as she was for her winning performances on stage. In 1917, a fifteen-year-old Bankhead boldly left her established...
Wilde Times
Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In her heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, she was a first-generation member and principal dancer of New York City Ballet during the uniquely dramatic Balanchine...
Alla Osipenko
Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in 1950, she joined the Mariinsky...