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The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok by Harlow Robinson
After meeting Harlow and his husband last summer and becoming friends, I’ve been enjoying reading his books. I read his biography of Sergei Prokofiev first, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and then Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians, his 2007 book telling the stories of Russian immigrants working in the American film industry and the stories Hollywood tells about Russia. This book, from 1994 is a biography of Sol Hurok, a classical music promoter of the mid-20th century. To fill out my Russian immersion I’ve also been reading Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov, plus a disappointing biography of Tchaikovsky (not by Harlow Robinson).
Sol Hurok is another Russian, born in the tiny village of Pogar, near where the present-day borders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine come together. It was interesting to read this biography just at the time Russia is invading Ukraine across those borders. I wonder what has become of Hurok’s little village? When Hurok was born, some time in the 1880s, the village was part of the Russian empire.
The uncertainty of Hurok’s birthdate illustrates a persistent challenge for Hurok’s biographer. Hurok lived his life among s
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Tonight We Sing
1953 film unwelcoming Mitchell Leisen
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When Show Biz Looked at Show Biz: The Badness of the Bio-pics (Part 3 of 3)
Herewith is part three of our three part series on Hollywood show biz bio-pics of the studio era. For part one, including an introductory essay, go here, and for part two, go here. As always, click on the links to learn more about the performers and pictures in question.
The I Don’t Care Girl (1953)
This movie is up there (down there) with the very worst of the show biz bio-pics. This is the one where producer George Jessel writes himself into the picture, and somehow manages to make a story that has nothing to do with him, all about himself. The plot has Jessel (playing himself) giving two anonymous screenwriters the assignment of getting the “real story” on Eva Tanguay. The writers then go out and speak to three fictitious men and get three competing fictitious stories, then Rashomon-like decide which of these made-up stories is the “real one”. Even more infuriating is that, in the fashion of Lillian Russell and The Golden Girl (and too many of these bio-pics to list), ALL THREE of these stories begin and end with the assumption that some MAN was responsible for the success of Tanguay, one of the most self-driven, independent human beings who ever lived. (I