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Schanke Robert A. Schanke SHATTERED Theater / Biography APPLAUSE his comprehensive biography of the actress fi lm critic Rex Reed called T“a national treasure” draws on Robert A. Schanke’s interviews and The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne correspondence not only with Eva Le Gallienne but also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends, including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley Granger, Jane Alexander, Uta Hagen, and Rosemary Harris. Forty- two illustrations offer highlights of Le Gallienne’s many notable perfor- mances in such plays as Hedda Gabler, Liliom, The Cherry Orchard, Peter Pan, Camille, Mary Stuart, The Royal Family, and The Dream Watcher. Behind her public role as a famous actress and as the founding and maintaining force of the fi rst civic repertory theater in the United States, Eva Le Gallienne led a private life complicated by her identity as a lesbian. Schanke considers Le Gallienne’s sexuality and how it played a role in the struggles, defeats, and triumphs that combined to inspire her greatness. Shattered Applause, a fi nalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfi ction, tells a fascinating story that also serves as a barometer of the changing values, tastes, and attitudes of American society. Robert A. Schanke, a professor emeritus of theater at Central College, Iowa, is the author of Eva Le Gallienne: A Bio-Bibliography, “That Furi- ous Lesbian”: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta, and Ibsen in America: A Century of Change. Cover illustrations: top, as Queen Marguerite in Exit the King, author’s collection; bottom, as Hilda Wangel in The Master Builder, courtesy Museum of the City of New York, The Theatre Collection. Southern Illinois University Press ISBN 0-8093-3008-3 ISBN 978-0-8093-3008-9 1915 University Press Drive Mail Code 6806 Carbondale, IL 62901 www.siupress.com Southern Illinois Printed in the United States of America University Press Foreword by May Sarton Schanke_Shattered_cvr_CDDC.indd 1 7/20/10 11:13 AM SHATTERED APPLAUSE The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne Shattered Applause As Hedda Gabler, 1939. Courtesy Museum of the City of New York, The T heatre CoUection. Shattered Applause The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne Robert A. Schanke Foreword by May Sarton Southern illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville Copyright © 1992 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University Paperback edition 2010 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 13 12 11 10 4 3 2 1 Te Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Schanke, Robert A., 1940– Shattered applause : the lives of Eva Le Gallienne / Robert A. Schanke; foreword by May Sarton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899–. 2. Actors—United States—Biography. 3. Lesbians—United States—Biography. I. Title. PN2287.L3S34 1992 792'.028'092—dc20 [B] 92-4414 ISBN 0-8093-1820-2 CIP ISBN 978-0-8093-1820-9 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8093-3008-9 (paperback) ISBN 0-8093-3008-3 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-8093-8600-0 (ebook) ISBN 0-8093-8600-3 (ebook) Te paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. To Jack Contents Illustrations / ix Foreword I xi May Sarton Preface / xv Acknowledgments I xxi 1. Water Baby I 1 2.Mad about Her / 24 3. Tout Sera Bien (All Shall Be Well) I 41 4.Abbess of Fourteenth Street I 66 5.My Life in Two I 88 6.The Greater Depression / 99 7.Beyond Joy I 159 8. Buying Some Freedom I 184 9. The Queen Is Baek I 202 10. Exit the Queen / 232 I1.The Comeback Kid I 242 12.Winter Bound I 268 Appendixes A. Works by Eva Le Gallienne I 281 B. Production Record of Eva Le Gallienne / 284 Notes I 291 Index I 311 illustrations Frontispiece As Hedda Gabler (1939) Following page 118 As two-year-old At tea with Nanny and Hep As eight-year-old in school play With half sister Hep (1914) While playing in The OjJChance (1918) AlIa Nazimova in Hedda Gabler (1918) In Liliom (1921) Modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch (1921) A doll of her Julie in Litiom (1922) Caricature of The Swan, (1923) In The Master Builder (1925) The Civic Repertory Theatre Caricature of The Three Sisters (1927) As Hedda Gabler (1928) In The Cherry Orchard with Alla Nazimova (1928) As Peter Pan (1928) Cover of Time (1929) As Juliet (1930) Cartoon from "Lesbian Scrapbook" In Camille (1931) In Alice in WOnderland (1932) Josephine Hutchinson as Alice (1932) In Camille (1935) May Sarton (c. 1937) In The Cherry Orchard (1944) In Mary Stuart (1957) ix

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