Fred Allen
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English
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Much Ado About Me, first published in 1956, is the autobiography of comedian Fred Allen's childhood and vaudeville career. (His long career in radio is documented in his other book, Treadmill to Oblivion). Much Ado About Me is a warm wise and wonderfully entertaining autobiography, jammed with extraordinary events and even more extraordinary people. Here is Fred Allen's early life in the suburbs of Boston; his apprenticeship in the Boston Public Library;...
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English
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"This goes through you like a dose of salts and stings like iodine."
So said Virginia Kirkus Reviews of Such Men Are Dangerous when it first appeared almost fifty years ago, and since then this edge-of-the-chair novel hasn't lost a step. It's the story of Paul Kavanagh, a burnt-out ex-Green Beret who copes with what we've since learned to call PTSD by retiring to a dime-sized islet in the Florida Keys. There he lives a determinedly simple life, his...
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For almost two decades, two radio comedians, Jack Benny and Fred Allen, participated in a long-running feud over the quality of Jack's violin playing. The principle incident initiating the feud and subsequent exchanges over the following year are presented, culminating with the return three years later of the young musician whose playing was featured at the start.
6) The jazz age
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Describes the spirit of the 1920's by showing clips from newsreels, and by presenting music of the period. Portrays life in the United States from the signing of the Treaty at Versailles to the stock market crash, highlighting isolationism, woman suffrage, prohibition, gangland warfare, flappers, Americans in Paris, and Lindbergh's Atlantic flight.
Publisher
Hollywood's Attic
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Upon learning that they have been named heirs to an elderly relative's estate, a flea circus operator and his family go on a spending spree. They then learn that the entire inheritance consists of five chairs. They sell the chairs and get caught up in a murder case before learning that the true fortune is hidden in one of the chairs.
