When Jules comes to see her after his return from the war, Ella finds it difficult to have some time alone with him.

Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into...

The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.

Two feuding vaudeville comedians who toured the country for 43 years as The Sunshine Boys are reunited after years apart to make a television commercial.

Harry Houdini s one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them ... or silence her before she can reveal them on her own. Boston, 1926. Jenny Wren Lockhart is a bold eccentric even for a female vaudevillian. As notorious for her inherited wealth and gentleman s dress as she is for her unsavory upbringing in the back halls of a vaudeville theater, Wren lives in a world that challenges...

In Road to Bali, Hope and Crosby are vaudeville performers hired as deep sea divers by an unscrupulous South Sea island prince. In My favorite brunette, Hope plays a photographer who substitutes for a private eye and gets involved in a murder mystery.

Profiles the early twentieth-century vaudeville star who became nationally known for her trend-setting performances and brazen personality, highlighting the historical significance of her sexually-forward performance style.