Outrageous Sophie Tucker
Meet...the Yiddish Lady Gaga...a fascinating bio-doc about the brash, larger-than-life entertainer known as ‘the last of the red-hot mamas.’
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
THE OUTRAGEOUS SOPHIE TUCKER is the rags to riches story of an iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, and Hollywood throughout the 20th century.
Before Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West, Sophie Tucker was the first woman to infatuate her audiences with a bold, bawdy and brassy style unlike any other.
Using all of "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" 400-plus recently rediscovered personal scrapbooks, authors Susan and Lloyd Ecker take you on their seven-year journey retracing Tucker's sixty-year career in show business.
Before Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West, Sophie Tucker was the first woman to infatuate her audiences with a bold, bawdy and brassy style unlike any other.
Using all of "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" 400-plus recently rediscovered personal scrapbooks, authors Susan and Lloyd Ecker take you on their seven-year journey retracing Tucker's sixty-year career in show business.
Genre
Documentary,
Music
Runtime
96
Language
English
Director
William Gazecki
FEATURED REVIEW
Abbey Bender, Village Voice
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker is a loving portrait of a larger-than-life figure, delivered in a tidy package. One of the preeminent women of the vaudeville scene, balancing popularity and provocation in the early half of the twentieth century, Tucker was an astute self-marketer who knew how to ...
Played at
Town Center 5 5.03.15 - 5.03.15
Playhouse 7 7.24.15 - 7.30.15
Royal 7.24.15 - 8.20.15
Claremont 5 7.25.15 - 8.02.15
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