Table of Contents
Foreword
Susan Weber
Editor’s Note and Acknowledgments
Selected Chronology: Theater, Fashion, and Culture. France, Great Britain, and the United States
Compiled by BGC Graduate Students
Staging Fashion, 1880-1920
Michele Majer
1. Dangerous and Influential Women: Actresses in Nineteenth-Century French Culture
Lenard R. Berlanstein
2. Lucile and the Theatricalization of Fashion
Sheila Stowell
3. Stylish Effervescence: Billie Burke and the Rise of the Fashionable Broadway Star
Marlis Schweitzer
Catalogue: The Actresses
Michele Majer with Maude Bass-Krueger, William DeGregorio, and Rebecca Perry
I. Jane Hadin
II. Lily Elsie
III. Billie Burke
Checklist of the Exhibition
Selected Performances
Compiled by BGC Graduate Students
Bibliography
Index
Contributors
Michele Majer
Assistant Professor at the Bard Graduate Center
Lenard R. Berlanstein
Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia
Marlis Schweitzer
Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at York University
Sheila Stowell
Free-lance producer and theater historian