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EBOOK Hermes Pan:The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199913060
EAN: 63D4D57EEB
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Stron: 320
Data wydania: 2012
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Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate        talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy from Tennessee who became the        most prolific, popular, and memorable choreographer of the glory days of the        Hollywood musical. While he may be most well-known for the Fred Astaire-Ginger        Rogers musicals which he choreographed at RKO film studios, he also created dances        at Twentieth Century-Fox, M-G-M, Paramount, and later for television, winning both        the Oscar and the Emmy for best choreography.In Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with        Fred Astaire, Pan emerges as a man in full, an artist inseparable from his works. He        was a choreographer deeply interested in his dancers' personalities, and his dances        became his way of embracing and understanding the outside world. Though his time in        a Trappist monastery proved to him that he was more suited to choreography than to        life as a monk, Pan remained a deeply devout Roman Catholic throughout his creative        life, a person firmly convinced of the powers of prayer. While he was rarely to be        seen without several beautiful women at his side, it was no secret that Pan was        homosexual and even had a life partner. As Pan worked at the nexus of the cinema        industry's creative circles during the golden age of the film musical, this book        traces not only Pan's personal life but also the history of the Hollywood musical        itself. It is a study of Pan, who emerges here as a benevolent perfectionist, and        equally of the stars, composers, and directors with whom he worked, from Astaire and        Rogers to Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank        Sinatra, Bob Fosse, George Gershwin, Samuel Goldwyn, and countless other luminaries        of American popular entertainment.Author John Franceschina bases his telling of        Pan's life on extensive first-hand research into Pan's unpublished correspondence        and his own interviews. Pan enjoyed one of the most illustrious careers of any        Hollywood dance director, and because his work also spanned across Broadway and        television, this book will appeal to readers interested in musical theater history,        dance history, and film.

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