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Nils Thor Granlund
Show Business Entrepreneur and America's First Radio Star
Verlag:
McFarland & Company Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35789666
EAN: 9780786448494
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Zustellung: Fr, 25.09.2026
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Beschreibung
Nils T. Granlund (1882-1957) created the first movie preview, filmed the first commercial, was the first to broadcast a live sports event, and, as a popular radio personality, introduced the Jazz Age to America via his broadcasts from Harlem's Cotton Club. He is also acknowledged as the creator of the modern nightclub, introducing the high-kicking chorus line to the stages of Las Vegas. But though he was among the highest-grossing entertainers of the World War II era-famous enough to star as "himself" in several Hollywood films-he died virtually penniless, and today is all but forgotten. This work is a comprehensive biography of the man known as NTG, from his herding reindeer in Sweden to shepherding the most beautiful chorus girls on Broadway.