Ergebnis für "Madame" in Unterhaltung & Stars

Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring '20s became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld - and had a good time doing it.

In 1876, Poland's leading actress, Helena Modrzejewska, accompanied by family and friends, emigrated to Southern California to establish a utopian commune that soon failed. Within a year Modrzejewska made her debut in the title role of Adrienne Lecouvreur at San Francisco's California Theatre. She changed her name to Modjeska and quickly became a leading star on the American stage, where she reigned for the next 30 years.

Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house: an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At 19, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal.

Mary Travers, Madame Bolduc, est née le 4 juin 1894 dans le petit village de pêcheurs de Newport, en Gaspésie. Elle démontre très vite un goût prononcé pour la musique. Première auteure-compositrice-interprète québécoise du début du XXe siècle, Madame Bolduc demeure une figure féminine emblématique de son époque. Encore aujourd’hui, pas moins de cent de ses chansons survivent et font la joie des amateurs de musique folklorique.