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Marjorie Graham - Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl - 9781447243885 - KTG0005996
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Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl

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Description for Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl Paperback. The touching true story of a young 1920s 'flapper', who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl Editor(s): Murphy, Clive. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AN; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.

The touching true story of a young 1920s ‘flapper’, who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl

‘Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill. I played Principal Boy in her place. At last! MARJORIE GRAHAM was all alone in electric lights outside the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh!’

Born into an ordinary Edinburgh family in 1904, Marjorie Graham was expected to grow up like any other respectable girl. But her childhood dance classes with friends instilled a burning desire in her: to be a star.

She couldn’t have chosen a better time. As ... Read more

From chorus girl, to actress, to raconteur and everything in between, this is the touching, tragic story of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary zest for life, whose name was destined to be up in lights.

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Product Details

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447243885
SKU
KTG0005996
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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About Marjorie Graham
Marjorie Graham was born in Edinburgh in 1904 and lived a rich, varied life until her tragic death in 1974. Clive Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1935. He has devoted much of the past forty years to recording, editing and publishing his 'Ordinary Lives' series of autobiographies, saving for posterity the memoirs of an extensive range of ... Read more

Reviews for Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl
'Deeply moving and authentic, and compulsive reading. [Marjorie's story] has the full gloom of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station and the precariousness of being alive.' John Betjeman 'A dancing, easyish, drinking lady whose fate it was never quite to get through ... [Reading Marjorie is] 'like eating meringues sprayed with "Evening in Paris".' Ronald Blythe

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