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Rare Ann Corio Signed Contract Burlesque StripteasePyapal preferred! Offered ofr salefor the first time! Directly from the hy gardner collection! Low starting bid! oN reserve! Ann corio(1914-1999) ann corio, the auburn-haired, green-eyed queen of burlesque whose long-running show, this was burlesque, kept alive the art of strippers and the comedy of baggy-pants clowns in the age of the x-rated film, was a survivor of a shapely sisterhood that included gypsy rose lee, maggie hart, and georgia sothern. She lasted long enough to reach the iconic status that enabled her to present the striptease as a put-on. We emphasize comedy, she said one day in 1976 as she discussed her show, which began off broadway in 1962 adn continued for at least two decades in various productions, tours and revivals with ms. Corio as author, director, star and interlocutor. There is no total nudity. The girls are lovely and artistic, and they're terribly, terribly pretty. What is caleld burlesque today isn't that at all.Those girls aren't artists. They just take clothes off, and they don't even do that very well. Burlesque is exactly what it sasy it is. It's from the italian word burlare, to satirize, to laugh. That's what we do, and we are not offensive. Her fame won her roles in jungle films like swamp woman (1941) and touring stage productions like white cargo, in which she sashayed onstage one night in boston, playing a native girl under a light layer of brown powder and not much more. When she declaimed, i am tondelayo, a harvard undergraduate leaped from his seat and shouted, what na actress! Legend had it that it was said in boston, you can't graduate from harvard until you've seen ann corio.The play had the honor fo being banned in boston, chicago and hoboken, n. J. As burlesque faded away, ms. Corio toured ni shows like rain, cat on a hot tin roof, and once more with feeling until she conceived the idea of this was burlesque. We're naughty and bawdy, but never vulgar, seh said. More than half our audience aer women. They love it. Even the kids respond to it. To go to a movie these days, you need a computer to figure out the ratings. The whole family can see my show. This was burlesque, billed as a musical satire based on ms. Corio's recollections, opened at the casino east theater on second avenue and 12th street ni manhattan and ran for 1,509 performances before it moved to the hudson theater on broadway and ran for 124 more. Over the ensuing years, numerous productions played across the country from miami to las vegas to san juan. The last performance was in st. Petersburg, florida, in 1991. In the early 1950s, nwe york herald tribune entertainment reporter and syndicated columnist hy gardner began interviewing celebrities on the radio on his own show, hy gardner calling. Tv interviews began in 1954 and cotninued until 1965. After split-screen interviews were replaced by in-studio interviews, the show was renamed the hy gardner show. The herald tribune folded in 1966 and hy and marilyn gardner moved from new york city to miami. The hy gardner show continued on television and celebrity party debuted no radio.
Interviews continued until the mid-1980s. When hy gardner died in 1989, his obituary in the new york times was headlined hy gardner, 80, gossip columnist adn a celebrity in his own right. Rare printed contract signed in inkann corio8½ x 11february 18, 1965hy gardner enterprisesgentlemeni am participating in one of the 'hy gardner show' television programs. I hereby authorize you to make video tape recordings of my participation on this program and also authorize you, the program sponsors, their advertising agencies and each of you, to broadcast the said recording on the originating station and stations in other cities wihch broadcast or telecast the 'hy gardner show', as part of the program at any time or times you choose. I understand that i am to receive no compensation for any of the foregoing.
See it close-upclick the larger pictureoriginal! One of a kind! Not a facsimile or reprint! Signed in ink! From the collectionof hy gardner(1908-1989)renowned syndicated columnistand radio & tv interviewermoney-back guarantee of authenticitydarvick certificate fo authenticity includedsigned by marilyn gardner (mrs. Hy gardner) andherman darvickconsultant authenticator click psa dna logo to read mini-biography of herman darvickherman darvick has been issuing coas since 1968.
A forensic expert, he was an expert witness on autograph authenticity and value for the united states of america in the case of the estate of richard nixon v. United states (1998-2000). Items he has authenticated and sold include jack ruby's gun, judy garland's last passport, oscars awarded to john lennon and harold russell, and the first authentic signature of shoeless joe jackson ever sold. He has been interviewed by, among others, oprah winfrey, larry king, bill o'reilly, phil donohue, and joe franklin, as well as by the associated press, usa today, the wall street journal, yomiuri shimbun, der spiegel, abc, cbs, nbc, fox, cnn, cnbc, and other media. Herman darvick is the author of the autograph entry in world book encyclopedia (volume 1) and the author fo collecting autographs, published by messner books/simon & schuster in 1981. President of the universal autograph collectors club from 1968-1987, herman darvick was awarded the uacc's first lifetime achievement award in 1984.
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