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Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Family 4 Notes 5 External links

Early life

Eva Tanguay was born in Quebec. Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Before she reached the age of six, her family moved from Quebec's Eastern Townships to Holyoke, Massachusetts. The Eastern Townships ( French: Cantons de l'Est) is a historical region in south-eastern Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of Her father died soon after. While still a child she developed an interest in the performing arts, making her first appearance on stage at the age of eight. With her parents' assistance, she pursued a show business career, working her way through a variety of amateur contests that eventually landed her a spot with a comedy troupe before making her vaudeville debut in New York City in 1904. The City of New York

Career

Although she possessed only an average voice, the enthusiasm with which the robust Eva Tanguay performed her suggestive songs soon made her an audience favorite. She went on to have a long-lasting vaudeville career and eventually commanded one of the highest salaries of any performer of the day earning as much as $3,500 a week at the height of her fame around 1910. ^[1] After seeing her perform, English poet and sexual revolutionary Aleister Crowley called Tanguay America's equivalent to Europe's music hall greats, Marie Lloyd of England and Yvette Guilbert of France. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (ˈkroʊli (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947 was a British Occultist Writer, mountaineer Music hall is a form of British theatrical Entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960 Matilda Alice Victoria Wood ( 12 February 1870 &ndash 7 October 1922) was an English Music-hall Singer, Yvette Guilbert ( 20 January 1865 in Paris &ndash 3 February 1944 in Aix-en-Provence) was a French Cabaret "The American Genius," he wrote, "is unlike all others. The 'cultured' artist, in this country, is always a mediocrity. … The true American is, above all things, FREE; with all the advantages and disadvantages that that implies. His genius is a soul lonely, disolate, reaching to perfection in some unguessed direction. … Eva Tanguay is the perfect American artist. She is… starry chaste in her colossal corruption. ^[2]

Eva Tanguay is remembered for brassy self-confident songs that symbolized the emancipated woman,` such as "It's All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It," "I Want Someone to Go Wild With Me," "Go As Far As You Like," and "That's Why They Call Me Tabasco. " In showbiz circles, she was nicknamed the "I Don’t Care Girl," after her most famous song, "I Don’t Care. "

Tanguay spent lavishly on both publicity campaigns and costumes. One obituary notes that a "clever manager" told Tanguay early in her career that money made money, and she never forgot the lesson, buying huge ads at her own expense, and on one occasion allegedly spending twice her salary on publicity. ^[3] She also got her name in the papers for allegedly being kidnapped, allegedly having her jewels stolen, and getting fined $50 in Louisville, Kentucky for throwing a stagehand down a flight of stairs. ^[4]

Her costumes were as extravagant as her personality. In 1910, a year after the Lincoln penny was issued, Tanguay appeared on stage in a coat entirely covered in the new coins. A penny (pl pence or pennies) is a Coin or a unit of Currency used in several English -speaking countries ^[5] Other costumes included a dress covered in coral which weighed forty-five pounds and cost $2000, and a costume made of dollar bills.

Tanguay only made one recording ("I Don't Care") in 1922 for Nordskog Records. Nordskog Records was a small Record label based in California in the early 1920s that produced some interesting historic recordings In addition to her singing career, she also starred in two film comedies that, despite the limitations of silent film, used the screen to capture her lusty stage vitality to its fullest. Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and The first, titled Energetic Eva was made in 1916 and the following year she starred opposite Tom Moore in The Wild Girl. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Thomas J Moore ( May 1, 1883 - February 12, 1955) was an actor in the United States born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath

Tanguay was said to have lost more than $2 million in the Wall Street crash of 1929. The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the ’29 Crash, the Crash of 1929, the Great Crash of 1929, the Great Crash of October 1929 ^[6]

In the 1930s, Tanguay retired from show business. Cataracts caused her to lose her sight, but Sophie Tucker, a friend from vaudeville days, paid for the operation that restored her vision. Sophie Tucker ( January 13, 1884 &ndash February 9, 1966) was a Singer and Comedian, one of the most popular entertainers ^[6]

At the time of her death, Tanguay was working on her autobiography, to be titled "Up and Down the Ladder. " Three excerpts from the autobiography were published in Hearst newspapers in 1946 and 1947.

Eva Tanguay died in 1947 in Hollywood where she was interred in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, now Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Popular rumor says that her spirit haunts the Cohoes Music Hall in upstate New York.

In 1953 Mitzi Gaynor portrayed Eva Tanguay in a fictionalized version of her life in the Hollywood motion picture, The I Don't Care Girl. Mitzi Gaynor (born September 4 1931, Chicago Illinois) is an American Actress, Singer, and Dancer.

Family

Eva Tanguay married three times. She divorced her first husband, a dancer named Tom Ford, in 1917. Her second marriage, to a vaudeville actor named Roscoe Ails, also ended in divorce. In 1927, when she was 48, Tanguay had her third marriage, to 23 year old pianist Alexander Booke, annulled on the grounds of fraud. ^[6] Tanguay claimed that he had two other names which he used so frequently that she was not sure which one was real. ^[7]

Notes

External links

• Eva Tanguay at the Internet Movie Database
• "I Don't Care": her sole recording, available on the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and

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