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In the roaring, topsy-turvy decades between the First and Second World Wars, the name Marilyn and the initials MM signified only one luminary - Marilyn Miller. She was Broadway's premiere musical star, the prized creation of the Great Glorifier, Florenz Ziegfeld, the star of Hollywood extravaganzas, and America's adored, delicately beautiful angel. Warren G. Harris's fascinating biography of this largely forgotten first Marilyn re-creates a gaudy and glorious time in the American theater. It is peopled with names now legendary: Sigmund Romberg, Mary Pickford, Billie Burke, Clifton Webb, Eddie Cantor, Jerome Kern, Fred Astaire, Jack Warner, W. C. Fields, Fannie Brice, Moss Hart, and many others. Revue after dazzling revue was created for her, first by Lee Schubert, who made her a start when she was not yet sixteen, and the by Ziegfeld, who capitalized on her loveliness and her talent as a dancer, singer, and charmer.^ Her appearances on stage and off, her love life (actual and reputed), her clothes, her style, her marriages, her confrontations with Ziegfeld and others, were the stuff of daily news stories and breathless gossip. Behind the dazzlement lay a different story. The younge

Who reads The other Marilyn: a biography of Marilyn Miller?

Author

Harris, Warren G.

Publisher

Arbor House Pub. Co.

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780877955849

Category

performing arts

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.1 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14