TY - BOOK AU - Schanke,Robert A. AU - Marra,Kim TI - Passing performances: queer readings of leading players in American theater history SN - 0472096818 (acidfree paper) AV - PN2286.5 .P37 1998 U1 - 792/.028/08664B 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Gay actors KW - United States KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra -- "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand -- "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. Walen -- Bohemian on horseback: Adah Isaacs Menken / Noreen Barnes-McClain -- Rebels of their sex: Nance O'Neil and Lizzie Borden / Jennifer Jones -- A lesbian marriage of cultural consequence: Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, 1886-1933 / Kim Marra -- Alla Nazimova: "the witch of makeup" / Robert A. Schanke -- Elsie Janis: "a comfortable goofiness" / Lee Alan Morrow -- Staging heterosexuality: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's design for living / Sam Abel -- Kit and Guth: a lavender marriage on Broadway / Lesley Ferris -- Webster without tears: a daughter's journey / Milly S. Barranger -- Cheryl Crawford: one not so naked individual / Jay Plum -- Monty Woolley: the public and private man from Saratoga Springs / Billy J. Harbin -- Mary Martin: washin' that man right outta her hair / Stacy Wolf -- Joseph Cino and the first off-off broadway theater / Douglas W. Gordy UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/98019710.html ER -