Up in Lights: The Memoirs of a 1920s Chorus Girl

by Marjorie Graham, Clive Murphy (Editor)

Overview

The touching true story of a young 1920s ‘flapper’, who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl

‘Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill. I played Principal Boy in her place. At last! MARJORIE GRAHAM was all alone in electric lights outside the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh!’

Born into an ordinary Edinburgh family in 1904, Marjorie Graham was expected to grow up like any other respectable girl. But her childhood dance classes with friends instilled a burning desire in her: to be a star.

She couldn’t have chosen a better time. As the roaring Twenties of jazz, Gatsby and glamour flared into life, young Marjorie got her first break as a chorus girl. But the glamour of being a ‘flapper’ brought with it hidden dangers, an altogether darker world of failed love affairs, poverty and addiction to drink…

From chorus girl, to actress, to raconteur and everything in between, this is the touching, tragic story of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary zest for life, whose name was destined to be up in lights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447248385
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	05/23/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	386 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Marjorie Graham was born in Edinburgh in 1904 and lived a rich, varied life until her tragic death in 1974.

Clive Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1935. He has devoted much of the past forty years to recording, editing and publishing his 'Ordinary Lives' series of autobiographies, saving for posterity the memoirs of an extensive range of urban and rural characters. He lives in Spitalfields.

Marjorie Graham was born into an ordinary family in Edinburgh in 1904. Her childhood dance classes with friends instilled a burning desire in her to be a star. Her memoirs Up in Lights (Part of the Ordinary Lives series by Clive Murphy) documents her rich, varied life from chorus girl, to actress, to raconteur and everything in between until her tragic death in 1974.