{"product_id":"ray-bolger-more-than-a-scarecrow","title":"Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow (Kindle, 254 pages) – Oxford University Press, 2019. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n Best remembered for his role as the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM musical The Wizard of Oz, Ray Bolger led a rich and extraordinary career in the decade before and more than four decades after the creation of the film. Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow is the first biography of this classic American entertainer, covering the luminous and forgotten career of the eccentric dancer outside of his burlap mask. The product of a fragmented, working-class Boston Irish family, Bolger learned tap and eccentric dance steps as solace for a difficult life before running away to repertory theater and Vaudeville. From there, he would go on to become a Broadway star, a contract player at Hollywood's major studios, one of the first performers to tour the South Pacific for the USO, a Tony Award winner, an early sitcom star, and the opening headliner of the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. Using unprecedented access to Bolger's papers and many never-before-published photographs, Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow pieces together the lost story of an itinerant hoofer who survived and thrived during the major media changes of the twentieth century and established himself as a staple of American pop culture.  ","brand":"Holly Van Leuven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069595537642,"sku":"9780190639044","price":34.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/61Y9FAqSf5L._SY522.jpg?v=1781212377","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/ray-bolger-more-than-a-scarecrow","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}