Fame in the 20th Century

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Fame in the 20th Century

• All Ahead Warp Factor One
• 1918-1932

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Leisure and Fame

• Leisure became part of lives of many people
  rather than privileged classes in the early part
  of the 20th Century.
• Great names came from leisure activities -
  entertainment and sports.
• Tennis champions, radio broadcaster, aviator,
  athletes, cricketers

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Leisure and Fame

• Babe Ruth (1895-1948) - American professional
  baseball player between 1919 and 1935. His
  nickname comes from Dunns babes. Dunn was the
  owner of Baltimore Orioles who found Ruth. He
  was over six feet high and weighed over 200
  pounds. In 1927 he hit 60 homers with the
  batting average of .353 for Yankees.

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Leisure and Fame

• Celebrity and fame
• Celebrities are not just famous for what they do,
  but for the kinds of lives that they lead.
• Babe Ruth not only hit home runs but earned
  astronomical salaries and consumed astronomical
  amount of food.

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Leisure and Fame

• Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) - American heavyweight
  boxing champion (1919-1926), generally considered
  the greates fighter.
• His boxing style was very aggressive and he kept
  on offensive almost continually.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vVawHgrLvbD4

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Leisure and Fame

• Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) - American aviator,
  remembered for the first non-stop flight from New
  York to Paris in May 20-21,1927.
• The media (radio and newsreel film) created his
  fame he was received by enthusiastic crowds in
  Paris and New York.
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Leisure and Fame

• In 1932 Lindberghs two-year-old son was
  kidnapped and eventually murdered.
• Because of his fame and the media coverage, this
  became the most famous murder case in the 20th
  century.
• Lindbergh did not enjoy his fame and he lived a
  quiet life with his family in Connecticut and
  Hawaii.

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Notorious fame

• Al Capone (1899-1947) - the most notorious
  gangster in America, who dominated the Chicago
  crime world between 1925-1931)
• In his youth, he was slashed on his left cheek
  and called scarface since. He moved from NY to
  Chicago and ran a massive brothel business and
  operated bootlegging since 1920.

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African-American Fame

• Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) - New Orleans trumpet
  player and the greatest name in the jazz history.
• The Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings
  between 1925-28) are the greatest.

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African-American Fame

• They made a great impact on the development of
  swing jazz.
• In his media appearance, he was featured as a
  good-humoured entertainer.
• In order to survive, African-Americans had to be
  popular entertainer.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvnRqYMTpXHc

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African-American Fame

• Duke Ellington (1899-1974) - pianist, the
  greatest jazz composer and bandleader. An
  originator of big-band jazz and creator of
  distinctive ensenble sound.

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African-American Fame

• The Duke Ellington Band in Cotton Club 1929
• He composed thousands of score some long and
  complicated, some experimental, some trying to
  combine jazz and classical music and some
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European Fame

• Sigmund Freud (1856-1938) - Austrian neurologist,
  founder of psychoanalysis. The psyche of human
  being consists of ego, id (unconsciousness) and
  superego.
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - German-born
  physicist who developed among others special and
  general theories of relativity.

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Americans in Paris

• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) - American novelist,
  Nobel prize winner for literature. Known for the
  masculinity of his writings and adventurous life.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) - American
  novelist, famous for his depiction of jazz age.
  His private life with his wealthy wife Zelda was
  as celebrated as his novels.

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Artists in Paris

• Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Russian born
  composer who revolutionalized idioms of classical
  music, particularly ballet music.
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Spanish born painter,
  sculptor, ceramist, stage designer. One of the
  greasest and the most influential artists in the
  20th Century.

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Artists in Paris
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European Fame

• Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel (1883-1971) - French
  dress designer. Her elegantly casual dresses
  helped women to be freed from uncomfortable and
  complicated wear. She innovated womens apparel
  through using bell-bottoms, turtle necks, and
  trench coats and devising pret-à-porter.

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European Fame

• Little black dress (cocktail dress)
• Jersey suits

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Show Business Idol

• Al Jolson (1886-1950) - Popular US singer,
  blackface comedian of musical stage and motion
  pictures. In 1927 he appeared in the first
  talkie film, The Jazz Singer.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqA8g1O1obOI
• Marx Brothers - American comedian team celebrated
  for inventive attacks on the genteel class and
  the socially respected. Chico, Harpo, Groucho,
  Gummo, Zeppo

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Show Business Idol

• Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) - German born
  actress whose look, voice, sophistication, and
  sensuality made her one of the most glamourous
  film stars.
• Dietrich was discovered by Josef von Sternberg
  and taken to the US.

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Show Business Idol

• Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) - French
  musical-comedy star who contributed the
  establishment of musical as a film genre. Known
  for a suave manner, wearing a straw hat and
  carrying a cane and English with French accent.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlyb2ZyGwB-k

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Show Business Idol

• Jean Harlow (1911-1937) - American actress who
  was the original Blond Bombshell. In her early
  acting career, she was mainly known for physical
  beauty and sexuality, but soon developed as an
  actress considerably.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v1iabQmjaWCM

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Show Business Idol

• Mae West (1893-1980) - American stage and film
  actress whose frank sexuality, suggestive posture
  and wisecracking made her Americas sex symbol.
  
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Show Business Idol

• George Gershwin (1898-1937) - one of the most
  significant and popular American composers. He
  mainly composed for Broadway music halls but
  wrote orchestral and piano music as well.

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Show Business Idol

• Fred Astaire (1899-1987) - American dancer of
  music stage and motion picture best known for his
  performance in musical comedies, particularly
  with Ginger Rogers.
• Matinee idol, whose ordinary look probably did
  not pose threat to the majority of females.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vOMOBdQykKQY