Book Description
Despite Prohibition, the '20s
was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some
took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance
Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the
first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of
some of America's first "It" girls—the silent
film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes
and Madonnas to follow. Accompanying these iconic images are
the stories behind them, including accounts from surviving Ziegfeld
Girls, as well as ads featuring them that helped perpetuate
the allure of It girl glamour. When rare and striking portraits
of these women surfaced on the internet in 1995, author Robert
Hudovernik began researching their source. What he discovered
was the work of one of the first "star makers" identified
most with the Ziegfeld Follies, Alfred Cheney Johnston. Johnston,
a member of New York's famous Algonquin Round Table who photographed
such celebrities as Mary Pickford, Fanny Brice, the Gish Sisters,
and Louise Brooks, fell out of the spotlight with the demise
of the revue. A sumptuous snapshot of an era, this book is also
a look at the work of this "lost" photographer.
About the Author
Robert Hudovernik is a freelance writer, photographer and
scriptwriter. He wrote and produced a documentary funded by
the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled Circus
Echoes on the golden age of circus entertainment during the
Art Deco era.
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