| With or Without a Song: A Memoir Contributor(s): Eliscu, Edward (Author), Eliscu, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 081084012X ISBN-13: 9780810840126 Publisher: Scarecrow Press OUR PRICE: $101.97 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2001 Annotation: With or Without a Song: A Memoir is a history spanning almost a hundred years. The author, Edward Eliscu, describes the course of his life from his family's emigration to America and his youth in New York City to his experiences in the pre-Borscht Belt Catskills and Broadway theatre of the 1920s and 30s and his career as a songwriter in the pre-Tin Pan Alley era. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Performing Arts | Film - Screenwriting |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001018882 |
| Series: Scarecrow Filmmakers |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.78" W x 8.72" (1.03 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Edward Eliscu has lived three celebrated lives for much of this century-on Broadway, in Hollywood, and in Connecticut. Known among his peers as the exemplary professional lyricist and to many others as a trenchant and witty playwright, screenwriter, performer, director, essayist, critic, poet, and political polemicist, Eliscu is best known to the general public as the writer of such memorable songs as Without a Song, More Than You Know, Great Day, Carioca, and Flying Down to Rio. As a screenwriter he wrote more than twenty films and adapted many prestigious dramatic plays for live television. This memoir is an exciting personal history of an artist with a conscience, his era, and the places he lived. |