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Irving Berlin's Show Business
David Leopold
Broadway - Hollywood - America
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
October 2005
240 pages ISBN: 0810958910 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Few artists have left as profound a mark on 20th-century
culture as did Irving Berlin. Starting in New York's Tin
Pan Alley in 1907 and continuing to Broadway and Hollywood,
Berlin enraptured Americans with such songs as "Alexander's
Ragtime Band," "There's No Business Like Show
Business," "Blue Skies," and "White Christmas." In the
autumn of 2001 his classic "God Bless America" even
returned to the Top Ten popular songs, decades after it was
written. For the first time, Berlin's extraordinary career can be
seen through an unprecedented assemblage of photographs,
drawings, posters, set and costume designs, sheet music,
and album covers. Most of the materials reproduced here
have either never been published or not published in more
than 50 years. This visually dynamic book gives us a fresh
look at our most popular songwriter, the man Jerome Kern
said was American music. It accompanies a nationwide
celebration of Berlin, comprising three separate
exhibitions-Berlin's Broadway, Berlin's Hollywood, and
Berlin's America-that will travel to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., in 2005 and 2006.
AUTHOR BIO: David Leopold is an authority on American show
business in both New York and Hollywood. As an independent
curator and archivist, he has organized a number of
exhibitions on the works of Al Hirschfeld, Oscar
Hammerstein, George Kaufman, and Moss Hart.
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