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Up in Lights Marjorie Graham

Up in Lights par Marjorie Graham

Up in Lights Marjorie Graham


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Résumé

The touching true story of a young 1920s 'flapper', who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl

Up in Lights Résumé

Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl Marjorie Graham

The touching true story of a young 1920s 'flapper', who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl

'Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill. I played Principal Boy in her place. At last! MARJORIE GRAHAM was all alone in electric lights outside the King's Theatre, Edinburgh!'

Born into an ordinary Edinburgh family in 1904, Marjorie Graham was expected to grow up like any other respectable girl. But her childhood dance classes with friends instilled a burning desire in her: to be a star.

She couldn't have chosen a better time. As the roaring Twenties of jazz, Gatsby and glamour flared into life, young Marjorie got her first break as a chorus girl. But the glamour of being a 'flapper' brought with it hidden dangers, an altogether darker world of failed love affairs, poverty and addiction to drink...

From chorus girl, to actress, to raconteur and everything in between, this is the touching, tragic story of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary zest for life, whose name was destined to be up in lights.

Up in Lights Avis

'Deeply moving and authentic, and compulsive reading. [Marjorie's story] has the full gloom of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station and the precariousness of being alive.' John Betjeman 'A dancing, easyish, drinking lady whose fate it was never quite to get through ... [Reading Marjorie is] 'like eating meringues sprayed with Evening in Paris.' Ronald Blythe

À propos de Marjorie Graham

Marjorie Graham was born in Edinburgh in 1904 and lived a rich, varied life until her tragic death in 1974.

Clive Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1935. He has devoted much of the past forty years to recording, editing and publishing his 'Ordinary Lives' series of autobiographies, saving for posterity the memoirs of an extensive range of urban and rural characters. He lives in Spitalfields.

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GOR004767852
9781447243885
1447243889
Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl Marjorie Graham
Occasion - Très bon état
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Pan Macmillan
20130523
160
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