FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
#1FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/13/15 at 11:02pm
I recently stumbled across this publicity shot from GEORGE WHITE's SCANDALS and found it really striking:
The craggy edges of the picture and the stoic expression made me think of the faded ghostly showgirls of FOLLIES. I don't know if anyone else would find it interesting but I thought I would share it with my fellow FOLLIES obsessed BWW posters.
The performer's name is Mildred Klaw, and the picture was taken sometime in the late 1920's.
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#3FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/13/15 at 11:58pm
Wrong photo, but Nowack got the one I meant to use first.
Updated On: 6/14/15 at 11:58 PM#4FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/14/15 at 4:37am
She's quite striking (clothed or un!). Her Broadway credits end in 1929, I wonder what she did after her showgirl days? Perhaps she married a stage door Johnnie and fell to obscurity.
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#5FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/14/15 at 7:20am
My Grandma was a Follie girl.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#6FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/14/15 at 9:18am
Artscallion--that's wonderful! Her name was Mollie and her lover's name (your grandfather's name?) was Yossel?
It sounds like something out of "Sadie Salome, Go Home!"--the song Irving Berlin wrote fro Fannie Brice, about the Jewish girl who joins a burlesque troupe, and her boyfriend begs her to stop stripping.
Sadie Cohen left her happy home
To become an actress lady.
On the stage she soon became the rage
As "The Only Real Salomy Baby."
When she came to town, her sweetheart Mose
Brought for her around a pretty rose,
But he got an awful fright
When his Sadie came to sight.
He stood up and yelled with all his might:
Refrain:
Don't do that dance, I tell you, Sadie!
That's not a bus'ness for a lady!
'Most ev'rybody knows
That I'm your loving Mose--
Oy, Oy, Oy, Oy!
Where is your clothes?
You better go and get your dresses.
Ev'ryone's got the op'ra glasses.
Oy! such a sad disgrace!
No one looks in your face.
Sadie Salome, go home
From the crowd, Moses yelled out loud,
"Who put in your head such notions?
You look sweet--but jiggle with your feet?
Who put in your back such funny motions?
As a singer you was always fine!
Sing to me, 'Because the world is mine!'"
Then the crowd began to roar.
Sadie did a new encore.
Mose got mad and yelled at her once more:
(Refrain)
#7FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/14/15 at 5:45pm
Artscallion, what wonderful pictures. She's gorgeous, and the rhyming note is so cute!
Another cool shot:
This time of Mlle. Desha in MUSIC IN THE AIR. Not strictly a showgirls and not from a "follies" type revue but still has an eerie ghostly feel I think.
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Updated On: 6/14/15 at 05:45 PM
#8FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/14/15 at 6:09pm
Just two more:
^^ ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1917
^^ ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1925
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#9FOLLIES Showgirl in Real Life
Posted: 6/14/15 at 7:48pm
Can you imagine getting to see the Ziegfeld Follies on stage? As much as people rave about the production of Follies (1971), I bet it couldn't have held a candle to the production values of the Ziegfeld follies.
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