Fame in the 20th Century

‘All Ahead Warp Factor One:

1918-1932’

Leisure and Fame

• Leisure became part of lives of many people rather than privileged classes in the early part of the 20th Century.

• Great names came from leisure activities - entertainment and sports.

• Tennis champions, radio broadcaster, aviator, athletes, cricketers

Leisure and Fame• Babe Ruth (1895-1948) -

American professional baseball player between 1919 and 1935. His nickname comes from ‘Dunn’s babes’. Dunn was the owner of Baltimore Orioles who found Ruth. He was over six feet high and weighed over 200 pounds. In 1927 he hit 60 homers with the batting average of .353 for Yankees.

Leisure and Fame• Celebrity and fame

• Celebrities are not just famous for what they do, but for the kinds of lives that they lead.

• Babe Ruth not only hit home runs but earned astronomical salaries and consumed astronomical amount of food.

Leisure and Fame

• Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) - American heavyweight boxing champion (1919-1926), generally considered the greates fighter.

• His boxing style was very aggressive and he kept on offensive almost continually.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VawHgrLvbD4

Leisure and Fame • Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) - American aviator, remembered for the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris in May 20-21,1927.

• The media (radio and newsreel film) created his fame; he was received by enthusiastic crowds in Paris and New York.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRnxSyRdrx0&feature=related

Leisure and Fame

• In 1932 Lindbergh’s two-year-old son was kidnapped and eventually murdered.

• Because of his fame and the media coverage, this became the most famous murder case in the 20th century.

• Lindbergh did not enjoy his fame and he lived a quiet life with his family in Connecticut and Hawaii.

Notorious fame• Al Capone (1899-1947) - the most notorious gangster in America, who dominated the Chicago crime world between 1925-1931)

• In his youth, he was slashed on his left cheek and called ‘scarface’ since. He moved from NY to Chicago and ran a massive brothel business and operated bootlegging since 1920.

African-American Fame

• Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) - New Orleans trumpet player and the greatest name in the jazz history.

• The Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings between 1925-28) are the greatest.

African-American Fame

• They made a great impact on the development of swing jazz.

• In his media appearance, he was featured as a good-humoured entertainer.

• In order to survive, African-Americans had to be popular entertainer.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc

African-American Fame

• Duke Ellington (1899-1974) - pianist, the greatest jazz composer and bandleader. An originator of big-band jazz and creator of distinctive ensenble sound.

African-American Fame

• The Duke Ellington Band in Cotton Club 1929• He composed thousands of score; some lon

g and complicated, some experimental, some trying to combine jazz and classical music and some popular. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azHbjNMaEFc&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkElnIiE4U4

European Fame

• Sigmund Freud (1856-1938) - Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. The psyche of human being consists of ego, id (unconsciousness) and superego.

• Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - German-born physicist who developed among others special and general theories of relativity.

Americans in Paris

• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) - American novelist, Nobel prize winner for literature. Known for the masculinity of his writings and adventurous life.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) - American novelist, famous for his depiction of jazz age. His private life with his wealthy wife Zelda was as celebrated as his novels.

Artists in Paris

• Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Russian born composer who revolutionalized idioms of classical music, particularly ballet music.

• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Spanish born painter, sculptor, ceramist, stage designer. One of the greasest and the most influential artists in the 20th Century.

Artists in Paris

European Fame• Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel

(1883-1971) - French dress designer. Her elegantly casual dresses helped women to be freed from uncomfortable and complicated wear. She innovated women’s apparel through using bell-bottoms, turtle necks, and trench coats and devising pret-à-porter.

European Fame

• Little black dress (cocktail dress)

• Jersey suits

Show Business Idol

• Al Jolson (1886-1950) - Popular US singer, blackface comedian of musical stage and motion pictures. In 1927 he appeared in the first ‘talkie’ film, The Jazz Singer.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8g1O1obOI

• Marx Brothers - American comedian team celebrated for inventive attacks on the genteel class and the socially respected. Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, & Zeppo

Show Business Idol• Marlene Dietrich (190

1-1992) - German born actress whose look, voice, sophistication, and sensuality made her one of the most glamourous film stars.

• Dietrich was discovered by Josef von Sternberg and taken to the US.

Show Business Idol• Maurice Chevalier (1888-

1972) - French musical-comedy star who contributed the establishment of musical as a film genre. Known for a suave manner, wearing a straw hat and carrying a cane and English with French accent.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyb2ZyGwB-k

Show Business Idol

• Jean Harlow (1911-1937) - American actress who was the original ‘Blond Bombshell’. In her early acting career, she was mainly known for physical beauty and sexuality, but soon developed as an actress considerably.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iabQmjaWCM

Show Business Idol

• Mae West (1893-1980) - American stage and film actress whose frank sexuality, suggestive posture and wisecracking made her America’s sex symbol.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXn65h6ijo&feature=related

Show Business Idol

• George Gershwin (1898-1937) - one of the most significant and popular American composers. He mainly composed for Broadway music halls but wrote orchestral and piano music as well.

Show Business Idol• Fred Astaire (1899-198

7) - American dancer of music stage and motion picture best known for his performance in musical comedies, particularly with Ginger Rogers.

• Matinee idol, whose ordinary look probably did not pose threat to the majority of females.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOBdQykKQY